The podcast “Alain de Botton - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work” exposes that workers are having a hard time enjoying their work in companies. de Botton mentions that people do not choose their jobs based on the features of the job description. They care only about how much they will earn from their job. They frustrated because they spend their entire life working in a job that they do not like. As a result, they do not have pleasure when they do their duty. This leads to lower work efficiency. The speaker mentions several examples about how people do their job without pleasure. One of examples concerns workers of biscuit company. The company has thousands of employees who work on the assembly lines every day, yet they do not excited about doing their duty. The main reason behind this is that the leaders of the company did not use appropriate approach to motivate their followers. Another reason is that employees did not find the job that they want. All of these reason lead to employees’ dissatisfaction with their current job.

Alain de Botton mentions some solutions to this dilemma, which adversely affects people’s personalities and company performance as well. The first solution is that leaders should motivate the workers to do their jobs. Leaders should work hard to figure out any problems that might influence the job career of the workers. Another thing is that leaders can use several tests, such as psychometric testing, to determine whether the job is suitable for the worker or not.

These days, there are numerous manufactories that hire illiterate workers to work on assembly lines, for example. These sorts of companies are concerned about the quantity of work, not the quality of work. Beside this, they do not care