Letting your employees have more fun around the office could make them better at their jobs, research suggests.
A study published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior discovered a link between informal learning, which is a common way employees pick up new skills that improve their job performance, and having fun at work.
Michael Tews, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor at Penn State University, said informal learning includes most unstructured, non-classroom forms of education.
“Most learning at the workplace occurs independently at the desk, or with a few other people, not necessarily in a classroom,” Tews said in a statement.
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