Platform · Workforce performance

A workforce performance platform built around capacity and engagement.

thrive at work is a workforce performance platform. The category matters less than the premise: performance depends on whether people want to deliver and whether they can sustain it, and most organisations measure only the first.

Last reviewed August 2026
4.6×
more people performing at their best
21→98%
+52%
higher productivity where resilience is strongest
Productivity score
8
domains scored 0–100
4 + 4
12 min
per employee, per cycle
55 statements

The premise.

Workforce performance is managed almost everywhere as a function of capability and motivation. Both matter. Neither explains why a capable, committed person delivers inconsistently.

The third variable is capacity — the physiological and cognitive headroom available to convert capability into output. It is measurable, it separates organisations sharply, and it is the half nobody else is measuring.

What it measures.

Capacity

Can they sustain performance?

Energy & Vitality, Recovery & Sleep, Focus & Attention, Resilience & Calm.

Engagement

Does the organisation enable it?

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

Scored separately, then read together on the Thrive Matrix and combined into the Thrive Index for tracking and benchmarking.

The cycle.

01
Measure. 55 statements, 12 minutes, anonymous, both halves in one window.
02
Diagnose. Which domain is constraining output, in which team, benchmarked by sector.
03
Act. Three pre-drafted priorities per team, routed to whoever owns the change.
04
Measure again. The delta between cycles is the result — a single measurement is only a baseline.

Outcome gaps.

Comparing employees with the strongest scores on a condition against those with the weakest, on the outcome named.

4.6×
More people can regularly perform at their best — 21% to 98%, bottom to top Thrive decile.Performance · bottom → top decile · n=10,000+
+52%
Higher productivity where resilience is strongest.Productivity · strongest vs weakest resilience
+64%
Higher capability where leadership is strongest — readiness to absorb change.Capability · strongest vs weakest leadership

Each outcome is a score, not an operational record, and each basis differs. See the full evidence base.

Sustainable output.

Any organisation can produce a strong quarter by spending its people. The platform exists to answer a narrower question: is the current level of output affordable, or is it being borrowed against recovery, attention and health?

The outcome

Output you can repeat without depleting the people producing it: sustainable performance.

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.

survey platform

employee survey platform

The instrument and how results are routed.

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.

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 is a workforce performance platform?
A platform that measures what determines output and routes the result into action. Thrive is built around two variables: capacity, meaning whether people can sustain performance, and engagement, meaning whether the organisation motivates and enables it.
How is this different from performance management software?
Performance management tracks individual output and objectives. This measures the conditions and resources that determine whether output is achievable and repeatable — at group level, never as an individual performance judgement.
What does a cycle involve?
A 12-minute anonymous survey, domain and index scores benchmarked by sector, three pre-drafted priorities per team routed to whoever owns the change, matched learning for individuals, then a repeat measurement showing whether it moved.

Measure whether your output is affordable.

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