A structured, statement-level instrument — not a wellness check-in or a single self-rated score. It scores four capacity domains (Energy, Recovery, Focus, Resilience) from 55 validated statements, anonymously, in about 12 minutes per employee.
Capacity could, in principle, be inferred from wearables or biometric data — and thrive at work runs development-stage research pairing survey responses with recovery markers. But at organisation scale, a validated statement-level survey remains the only practical way to measure capacity consistently, anonymously and across every role, without new hardware or consent friction. The statements are research-grounded, not ad hoc — drawn from an underlying evidence base of peer-reviewed literature per domain.
Statement design, cadence and reporting thresholds: how to measure employee capacity.
Measuring capacity isn’t a one-off survey — it’s a repeating cycle: employees are invited, they answer anonymously, responses are scored into domain and index results, and those results route into action — for managers, for HR, and for the employee’s own learning.
Invite, answer, score, act — walked through step by step in How it works.
Each statement response rolls up into one of four capacity domains, each scored 0–100. The four domain scores combine into a single Capacity Index, which is then measured alongside the Engagement Index to place each result on the Thrive Matrix.
Capacity is measured on a recurring cycle — typically quarterly — specifically because it is designed to move. Employees and organisations see their scores change survey after survey, which is what makes capacity an actionable metric rather than a one-time snapshot.
The instrument described here runs inside the wider employee survey platform, which routes results into action plans and matched learning.
This page describes the measurement method behind the Capacity Index: 55 statement-level items across four domains, anonymous, roughly 12 minutes to complete, scored 0–100 per domain and combined into an index.
Statements are grounded in peer-reviewed literature per domain; the underlying evidence base and validation study are documented separately.
One instrument, 55 statements, about 12 minutes — capacity and engagement measured together, every cycle.