Catching up with Karyn
OMG! Funny Really DOES Make Money!
A CFO’s Take on Humor in the Workplace
One thousand, four hundred CFOs were asked, “How important is an employee’s sense of humor in him or her fitting into your company’s corporate culture?” Seventy-nine percent of them said that an employee’s sense of humor was important for fitting into a company’s corporate culture. Seventy-nine percent!
Wow! Two things about this impressed me. First, seventy-nine percent is a huge majority. And second, why the heck did they ask CFOs?! One would of thought they’d ask the CEO or director of HR, but I think it’s fantastic that the researchers asked the single most numbers-oriented person in any firm such a “soft” question.
The research also revealed that twenty-two percent said it was “very important,” while twenty percent said it was “not at all important.”
“A little levity goes a long way toward building rapport among colleagues, and...
