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  • While most business books, according to Kihn, are written at about a seventh-grade level there are exceptions like Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens that are written at a fifth-grade level, the funsultant literature regresses all the way back to primary school.

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  • A full 70 percent of Internet porn consumption takes place during office hours, and perhaps much of the rest of the time is dedicated to crafting Internet parodies, such as the following by one “Robert Moore,” who apes the rhetoric of a funsultant, saying employers can make the workplace more fun by having “Tick Days” “place ticks on the necks of your staff”.

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  • There is a remedy for cynicism like Moore’s: Hire a funsultant.

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  • A good funsultant, however, doesn’t bill fun at the office as a cessation of work, but rather, casts the two as halves of a whole, what Leslie Yerkes, author of Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work, calls a “Fun/Work Fusion.”

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  • Nothing personal, but this word, along with funtivities and funcilitator, makes me want to barf. Either that, or you're brilliantly funny. I can't tell.

    September 11, 2007

  • That, and adding the riffic suffix to things. Ick.

    September 11, 2007

  • Geez seanahan, you're dullriffic!

    September 11, 2007

  • Hey uselessness, don't start with me, or I'll get stabyouinthefaceriffic.

    September 11, 2007

  • Someone's getting a little violentastic, no? ;-)

    September 11, 2007

  • No need for threatfullishessnesses!

    September 11, 2007

  • funsultant, n.

    The Guardian, 12 December 2016:

    In The Wellness Syndrome, the book I wrote with Carl Cederström, we took a look at the increasing fascination with happiness at work. We found a growing industry of “funsultants” offering advice on how to make workforces more positive. Firms such as Zappos have started to employ chief happiness officers. There is also a booming field of management research on positivity at work.

    December 12, 2016