WHY IS GRATITUDE SO IMPORTANT AT WORK
If you knew that expressing gratitude to a colleague would improve their life and yours, would you do it more often? A new study finds a positive relationship between expressing gratitude at the workplace, with physical and mental health. Held in context of nurses and corporate colleagues, the study, Gratitude reception and physical health: Examining the mediating role of satisfaction with patient care in a sample of acute care nurses , shows that being thanked more often at work predicted better sleep, fewer headaches and healthier eating, because it improved the work satisfaction of nurses. About the study The study involved a group of nurses and some of my colleagues at office. Nurses is a profession that has a particularly high rate of burnout. Nurses tend to have a thankless job. It’s very physical, and they’re often being screamed at by patients who are at their lowest. When nurses receive gratitude, it boosts them. Nurses strongly align their profession with their identity an