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Paper 1 Humor at Work
Paper 1 Humor at Work
The text given is an infographic taken from the website of “Humor at Work”, which is an
American company that provides resources on how to achieve success and happiness in the
workspace. Even though the infographic is easy to understand for a wider audience it is targeted
at the working class in America. The author achieves the purpose of informing people about the
uses of humor at work and why it is missed by presenting data through illustrations, icons, and
The infographic has “Why humor at work is missing” as a heading written in relatively larger
fonts and a bright orange color. This gives the audience an idea of what the infographic is about
as well as captures their attention with the large fonts. Next to the heading, there is an illustration
of a milk carton with the label “missing Hugh Moore” on it. This alludes to how missing people
are put on milk cartoons but in this illustration “Hugh Moore” is to be read as “humor”. The use
of this joke relates to the infographic as the author is using humor in his own infographic. This
sets the light-hearted tone for the infographic together with the bright orange used.
“… why do only 33% of workers use it?” is written as a subheading giving statistics as a reason
for why this infographic was made with that heading. Beneath the sub-reading, there’s an
illustration of a person with thought bubbles showing data on why people don’t use humor at
work. The data is presented as a percentage with the color making it easier for the audience to
track the most important information from a quick look at the infographic. These statistics have
snippets explaining what the percentage is about. It represents why workers don’t use humor at
work which informs the audience further about what was stated in the heading. The illustration
A banner titled “The people want humor” with fists and text bubbles are illustrated as well.
Framing humor at the workplace as a political campaign, makes it seem more important than
people think it is. It could also be understood as the base of hyperbole to create humor by
comparing it to something as important as a political campaign. The statistics show how many
employees, professionals, and CEOs think that humor in the workplace is important. The use of
different works relates to the title of the banner using people. The statistic again has the same
color as the heading to make it easier to get the important information. The banner is colored
blue which matches the color of the second part of the infographic which shows why humor is
needed at the workplace. This color choice is made because the worker in the banner talks about