By Morten Hansen and Dacher Keltner Do you experience meaning at work — or just emptiness? In the United States people spend on average 35-40 hours working every week. That's some 80,000 hours during a career — more time than you will spend with your kids, probably. Beyond the paycheck, what does work give you? Few questions could be more important. It is sad to walk through life and experience work as empty, dreadful, a chore — sapping energy out of your body and soul. Yet many employees do, as evidenced by one large-scale study showing that only 31
