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Data, guides, tools and analysis on employee capacity and engagement.
White paper · First edition
The scientific foundations of employee capacity and engagement.
How the assessment was built and tested: checked against heart, sleep and cognitive measures in the same people over twelve months, and against outcomes across nearly 7,000 employees.
- €19,800a year per employee in working time: 71 more days not working effectively in the lowest capacity quarter than the highest
- 56%of priority work delivered on time by the people with the least capacity, against 86% by those with the most
- 3×the days of not working effectively for employees who are highly engaged but burning out
What thrive research shows
The strongest scorers do measurably better.
People with the highest capacity and engagement scores, compared with the lowest.
Strongest compared with weakest scores on each driver.
From the thrive business value model.
The evidence base
Data, tools and methods.
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Four guides. Read them in order.
- 01What is employee capacity?The energy, recovery, focus and resilience needed to do a job well.Read →
- 02What is employee engagement?Whether the organization motivates and enables contribution.Read →
- 03Capacity and engagementHow the two differ, and why measuring one alone misleads.Read →
- 04How to measure employee capacityDomains, statement design, cadence and anonymity thresholds.Read →
Latest writing
Analysis for HR and business leaders.
The scientific foundations of employee capacity and engagement
How the assessment was built and tested: against heart, sleep and cognitive measures over twelve months, and against outcomes across nearly 7,000 employees.
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31 Aug 2026 · 5 min readReading a capacity and engagement reportWhat the two indices and the Matrix mean, the first time a team’s results arrive.
31 Aug 2026 · 6 min readWhat to ask before buying an engagement surveyNine questions that separate a sentiment survey from a measure of sustainable work.
31 Aug 2026 · 7 min readHow to measure employee engagementWhat to ask, how often, and the half most engagement surveys never check.
28 Aug 2026 · 7 min readWhy capacity measurement matters for HREngagement shows whether people want to contribute. Capacity shows whether they can.
26 Aug 2026 · 6 min readThe four Thrive Matrix statesFour states, four different responses.
24 Aug 2026 · 7 min readBurnout prevention: conditions, not perksWhat to change when the problem is workload.
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