A Spiritual View

Photo: Colourbox. Why do we work at all? Once I was at a job interview at the furniture sale Ikea. On that occasion, a young woman in a blue T-shirt interviewed me. "Why do you want to work at Ikea?"  she asked. "I've found that Ikea pays its employees more than other chain stores,"  I replied. She then said that  “Salary is a matter of course. What can you offer us that will make us an even better company?” I was not prepared for that question. Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It's a question that is only asked in societies where basic needs are being met. We have, so to speak, already moved up from a state where life is about mere personal or family survival, as it is known from Maslow's pyramid of needs. It gives reason to also consider how money is made in business. In certain parts of the business world, the black numbers on the bottom line are given an almost absolute importance.  The greater profit, the better – and that even when a person watchin...