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Chief Happiness Officer has made a significant contribution to the potential for office happiness, or at least, office playfulness, in his most inspiring article “12 Ways to Pimp your Office“. The tree-thing-with-balls, for example, that illustrates this article is actually a chair in which one could actually sit if one were so inclined, as one would definitely have to be. The article describes such bizarre office furniture as the high-tech, Mac-like, aquarium-holding Milk Desk, the office cowboy’s Saddle Chair, and the naptime-ready Sumo Chair. Alexander Kjurelf, CHO, concludes:
“Why not let people choose for themselves, and give them a chance to create an environment that suits them. The resulting variety may be confusing to those who think that business is about structure, order and control… but it’s sure to be more stimulating and fun for those of us who think that work is about being happy.”
These are clearly radical thoughts, as any work-happiness-correlation thoughts would have to be. Which makes them especially worthy of our collective attention. And yes, of course, you’re right again – happily wacky furniture does not necessarily a happy office make. But, should it be the case that playfulness is actually smiled upon by the powers that be, and should all that smiling-upon be further validated by the daily performance in the sacred marketplace, well, then, eine kliene furniture-wackiness can only make a good thing more likely to get better, yes no?