We help you eliminate work-about-work
60% of work in the modern organisation is work-about-work: suffocating meetings, relentless emails, debating boundaries, chasing information, waiting for approvals.
Don't endure. Eliminate.
The burden of work-about-work is an extraordinary and invisible 60% tax on all people investment in the average organisation.
Use our simple tax counter for one week to find out how much work-about-work tax you are paying.
For too long we have accepted an inextricable association between work and suffering.
We just need to push through, work is work.
That 'just pushing through' leads to 77% of people reporting burnout.
The average adult will invest 90,000 hours of their life into work.
That should be a joyous experience, and it can be.
Founded in 2024 by John Rizzo, Joyous Work is built on five years of research into the root causes of work-about-work in the modern organisation, and more than twenty years of experience getting work done in organisations from one to one hundred thousand people.
Services
Work Simulation
A keynote experience
Experience years in a few hours. In this keynote unlike any other, every person in the room is part of a fictional, live simulated organisation. As budgets change, the Board has new demands, and new promotion opportunities arise, what will you do? How do those decisions impact others and the organisation? And critically, how do those decisions create or eliminate work-about-work?
An ideal catalyst for change: a magic pill for intolerance of work-about-work.
Elimination Missions
Working with you to stop work-about-work at the root cause level
We start by dragging work-about-work out of the shadows and into the spotlight: what is the cost?
Using our tool built on more than five years of research into the complex patterns that create work-about-work, we find the root causes with just three questions.
And then, change. We support you to attack the root causes through iterative changes that create leverage: maximum impact with minimum friction.
Joyous work is the feeling of doing a thing that matters, and doing it well.
Hands in the dirt creating a beautiful garden. Hands on coding to create a super-secure payment portal. Caring for the vulnerable. Deep exploration of data to learn something important. Coaching. Teaching. Investigating. Building. Fixing. Designing. Discovering.
It is fundamentally human to want to do things that matter, and do them well. Put in even simpler terms, joyous work is about executing our crafts.
Nothing suffocates executing our crafts like work-about-work. Reduce the tax, increase joy, and increase productivity.
