After 10 years of service, I replaced by winter jacket over the weekend. While transfering the pocket clutter I came across a piece of a newspaper I had saved from the spring. The scrap talks about a survey done by Deloitte & Touche about the relationship between ethics and job satisfaction.

The survey found 91% of employed adults agree workers are more likely to behave ethically when they have a good work-life balance and 60% said job disatisfaction is a leading reason why people make unethical decisions at work.

What was also interesting was that a flexible work schedule was 2nd only to compensation in how people see job satisfaction.

Perhaps the questions you should be asking of your team when an embarassing bug is reported from the field are not just along the lines of ‘Did you test this?’ and ‘How did we miss this?’ but also ‘Are you happy with your job?’ and ‘How can I make you even happier?’