&gt; If you work better happy... fine, that&#x27;s a consideration. But really it&#x27;s the only one.<p>Not only do I work better happy (I do), I <i>stick around longer</i>. And that&#x27;s really the key, here. Sure you can squeeze productivity out of creators while disregarding their happiness, but everyone has their limits. They will eventually leave and take with them a wealth of tribal knowledge. Corporations are notoriously bad at measuring the cost of losing employees with domain specific knowledge about their products or services. The attitude is typically that creators are interchangeable like cogs in a machine.