What's YOUR Key Indicator for Employee Happiness? One option.

Office Supplies.

That was the expense account that a company my friend worked for looked at to see how the troops were doing.  If the expenses for office supplies increased significantly, they knew they had something to be concerned about.

When employees start pillaging office supplies, you know you're in trouble.  When a weird sense of entitlement around office supplies shows up, you know the end is dangerously within sight.  Why?  Because if the office culture has gotten so petty, oppressive and passive aggressive that the only way employees can rebel (cry ...