1. The PLAy InDeX Fun is a serious business Team: Innov84future ADULTS AT PLAY

2. The Story: As adults, we spend about 121000 hours on average during our lifetime at work. Work life makes up about one-third of our active adult life. So how we spend our time at work is enormously important. Which also means that having fun is necessary. The PlayIndex & PlayQuotient The PlayIndex is a website that will allow users to input details anonymously about their company, their level of happiness at work, if they are having fun, ways in which they feel that improvements can be made to their work life. They will also have the opportunity to input their moods at various hours of their day at work, so they can document their emotional states through their work-days. Work life: Under the microscope The PlayQuotient is a composite score that is made up of employee evaluation of different work life-related criteria. The PlayQuotient will reflect different aspects of fun at a workplace, be it a playful environment, fun deliverables and challenges, creative freedom etc. This way companies will also have an idea of how they are performing with regards to their employees’ job satisfaction. The companies with the happiest employees will be ranked in a leaderboard according to their PlayQuotient.

3. The PlayIndex The PlayIndex Website Smartphone Application Social Media like Facebook and Twitter The PlayIndex Blog ConnectCommunicateChange How The PlayIndex affects Fun + Meaning? -It nudges employers to take fun seriously -It acts as a forum where best practices on fun at workplace can be shared -It harnesses the power of technology for change and progress -It provides employees with an opportunity to lead work-culture innovation -It provides a benchmark against which improvements can be made -Happier work life can ultimately help towards a happier life!

4. What WORK is, what it can be Construction Manager, India: “I would like to have more fun doing things I love at work. I want a job that will make feel energized and fired up, even at the end of the day.” Advertising Executive, India: “I want my job to be such that creativity is seamless; the boundaries between art, music, movies, work should be blurred and enable me to draw inspiration from la dolce vita”. Investment Banker, Singapore: “I go through a lot of negative emotions at work. Anger, frustation, tension. I would like to minimise the negative emotions and feel more positive. If I have a good day at work, that influences my time at home too”. HR Manager, USA: “I want to help create an organization where people are having so much fun, they loathe leaving office”. Business Student, Australia: “A lot of my friends are stuck in the perpetual “student zone” where they bounce from one higher degree to another, partly due to fear that modern workplace stifles learning, curiosity and knowledge- seeking”.

5. Questions to Edward De Bono -How can we tailor our education system to meet the changing demands of an enlightened workplace? -How can we engineer ‘play’ to boost employee morale and workplace productivity? -How can we make fun and play integral to the workplace? -How do we make the transition between pre- school, school, university and work seamless (in terms of how much fun we are having?)