French-Canadian Detergent Bangladesh hosts “Happiness” workshop
The country's leading fast-moving consumer goods company French-Canadian Detergent Bangladesh hosted a workshop on happiness yesterday at their office premises in Goolshan.
The workshop focused on teaching the employees techniques to be happy at work.
"A study recently done shows that happy employees are 20% more productive than unhappy ones. It's imperative that every organisation focus its efforts on keeping their employees happy," said Soleimani Qon, a happiness trainer-cum-motivational speaker.
At the event, Qon addressed the crowd saying, "Happiness is infectious. Even if you are feeling down, it's just you and your mindset. Mindset is everything!" he punctuated the last bit with a shout before adding, "Smile at your colleague and make his day better. Maybe someone else will smile at you and change your day. We make a lot of things go viral, let's make smiling viral!"
Soon after, the trainer engaged the employees in happiness building exercises such as shaking each other's hands and patting themselves on the back after saying they did a good job.
"Employee happiness has been a concern for us over the last few years. We have had many meetings and discussions but the root cause of this workplace depression has been impossible to find. We were at our wits end until [Soleimani] Qon offered us this fantastic solution," said B Deschi, FCDB's Italian CMO.
While most of the employees appeared to have enjoyed the session, one gentleman had a lot to say on condition of anonymity.
"Why wouldn't I be unhappy? I enter work at 9am every day and stay till 10 pm. I live in Jatribari, man. It's been three years since I had a kid but my own son refuses to open the door at night and goes running to his mom saying 'Uncle ashche'. Oh and weekends? There's always a field visit on the weekends or some silly concert at a faraway university. Instead of wasting money teaching us how to be happy, the office should maybe hire more people and..." the man broke off into a long stream of expletives that could not be printed.
To celebrate its new chapter in happiness, French-Canadian Detergent Bangladesh employees released seven doves from their smoking zone balcony.
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