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Georgia Ranks Last in Job Satisfaction Nationwide Due to Lengthy Commutes

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Georgia has the least happy employees in the country according to a new survey conducted by select software reviews. The company evaluated each state based on wages, quit rates, commute times, working hours, injuries, paid time off, and state positivity levels.

Georgia scored 29.62 on the survey, dead last in the nation with hefty commute times being the biggest contributor to the low score. Coming in first was Alaska, which had an average work week of 31.3 hours and a well above-average pay rate.

Rhode Island and North Dakota round out the top three. Several southern states scored low including Virginia at 43rd, Alabama at 45th, South Carolina at 46th, Florida at 48th, and Texas at 49th.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
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