First, more than 5,000 people took the “Does Your Job Require High Or Low Emotional Intelligence?” test. Or put another way, if you don't have to fake your emotions at work, you’re 32% more likely to love your job. Another study showed that, in certain jobs, having higher emotional intelligence is actually correlated with lower job performance. In 2010, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign conducted an exhaustive meta-analysis of every available study linking emotional intelligence to job performance. And anyone who knows how painful it is to have to fake your emotions at work probably isn’t stunned either.

Source: Forbes April 10, 2019 14:42 UTC