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Elizabeth Urban

Insurance Company to Force Employees to Laugh More at Work by Installing Office 'Laughter Detectors' and Setting a Laugh 'Quota'

An insurance company installed an office “laugh detector” to try to get employees to laugh more at work, and if they fail to meet their laugh “quota,” they are sent a funny video. This is a representational image. (Credit: Austin Distel/Unsplash)

An insurance company installed an office "laugh detector" to try to get employees to laugh more at work, and if they fail to meet their laugh quota, they are sent a funny video to get the giggles going.

Baloise, an insurance company in Switzerland, brought in the laugh detector known as their "Chief LOL Officer" to get employees to laugh and to boost morale, as reported by Swiss outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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