Platform · Employee survey

An employee survey platform built for what happens after the survey.

Most survey platforms are very good at collecting responses and produce a dashboard. The hard part is what comes next — deciding what to do, getting it to the person who can do it, and knowing next cycle whether it worked.

Last reviewed August 2026
55
universal statements
12 minutes
8
domains scored 0–100
4 + 4
3
priorities per team, pre-drafted
Action plans
300+
courses matched to low scores
Thrive Academy

The shelf problem.

Almost every organisation has run a survey whose results were presented once and never acted on. The failure is rarely the instrument. It is the gap between a dashboard and a decision.

Three things close that gap, and a platform has to do all three or none of them matter: the result has to name a priority, the priority has to reach whoever can change it, and the next cycle has to show whether it moved. A dashboard alone leaves all three to the reader.

The loop.

01
Measure. 55 statements, 12 minutes, anonymous. Capacity and engagement in one window so they are comparable.
02
Diagnose. Eight domain scores, three indices, and a position on the Thrive Matrix — organisation-wide and by segment.
03
Act. Three pre-drafted priorities per team, routed by who owns the change — manager, HR or the individual.
04
Learn. Courses matched to each person’s lowest-scoring domain, not chosen from a catalogue.
05
Measure again. The change between cycles is the unit of value — a one-off survey cannot produce it.
See the cycle

What each stage looks like in the product: how it works.

What it measures.

Both halves of what determines performance, scored separately.

Engagement

Do they want to?

Purpose & Meaning, Leadership & Trust, Connection & Belonging, Growth & Enablement.

Capacity

Can they sustain it?

Energy & Vitality, Recovery & Sleep, Focus & Attention, Resilience & Calm — the half most platforms do not ask about.

What each role sees.

Leadership
Organisation-wide results, segments, benchmarks and key drivers — with the priorities that matter most.
Managers
Team results and drivers, with the action plan already drafted. Never individual responses.
Employees
Their own private results, personal insights and matched learning. Visible only to them.
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Security & anonymity.

Capacity data touches sleep, energy and strain, which makes it more sensitive than engagement data. No result is displayed for any group under five people, including through cross-filtering, and individual responses are never visible to any manager.

Data handling

Storage, retention, processing and sub-processors: trust and security.

By construct

The two halves in detail: the employee engagement survey and the employee capacity survey.

The same platform, different entry points.

Buyers arrive at this decision from different directions, so each of these pages answers the question in the language it was asked in. One product underneath, one 55-statement instrument, one cycle.

engagement platform

employee engagement platform

Engagement measured with capacity alongside it.

experience platform

employee experience platform

The physiological side of experience, not only sentiment.

wellbeing platform

employee wellbeing platform

Wellbeing scored as conditions rather than perks.

performance platform

workforce performance platform

The value story: output an organisation can repeat.

Or start with the model

What all five have in common: capacity and engagement measured together, then read on the Thrive Matrix.

Method & sources.

Figures come from thrive at work’s own validation study (n=10,000+, 2025–26), fielded across the US and Europe. Each comparison states its own basis, and they are not interchangeable.

These are associations measured within a single cross-sectional study, not causal claims. No score is displayed for any group of fewer than five people.

  1. Thrive Index validation study. thrive at work, n=10,000+, 2025–26, fielded across the US and Europe.
  2. Domain foundations. 140+ peer-reviewed papers underpinning the eight domains — see the methodology.

Common questions

What does an employee survey platform need to do beyond collecting responses?
Three things: name a priority from the result, route it to whoever can actually change it, and measure again next cycle to show whether it moved. A dashboard alone leaves all three to the reader, which is why so many survey results are presented once and shelved.
How long is the survey?
55 universal statements, a median of 12 minutes per employee, covering four capacity domains and four engagement domains.
Can managers see individual answers?
No. Managers see aggregates only, and no score is displayed for any group of fewer than five people — ten for demographic cuts, thirty for open text.

See the loop, not just the dashboard.

A 30-minute call with the research team covers what a first measurement would surface, and how your sector compares.