Additional longitudinal evidence supports the notion that happy employees are more likely to remain at their jobs (Pelled & Xin, 1999). To illustrate, researchers assessed the positive affect of a variety of employees at an electronics company (including supervisors, administrative staff, and engineers) and then tracked their absence rate in the months that followed. Results indicated that positive emotions and absence were negatively related, such that those employees who were the happiest were the least likely to be absent from work. Happy people are also less likely to lose their jobs and to be unemployed than less happy people (Diener, Nickerson, Lucas, & Sandvik, 2002; Marks & Fleming, 1999).