# Friday Pulse

> Friday Pulse is a workplace happiness platform. Organizations use it to measure team happiness through short, regular pulse surveys, spot risks like burnout and turnover early, and build stronger team cultures through the data and guided conversations that follow.

Friday Pulse was founded in 2018 by Nic Marks, building on over a decade of his research into what drives happiness and performance at work. The platform's method, plans, and content are described below.

## The method

Friday Pulse measures happiness at work with short, research-backed pulse surveys rather than generic engagement metrics — one-off, monthly, or weekly, depending on the plan. Scores are aggregated at the team level to protect individual anonymity: group scores are only shown once at least three responses are received. Results are benchmarked by sector, country, and organization size, and used to flag teams at risk of low performance, high turnover, or burnout.

- [The science of happiness at work](https://fridaypulse.com/science) — the research and principles behind the methodology
- [Pricing](https://fridaypulse.com/pricing) — Classic (one-off survey), Essential (monthly pulse), Pro (weekly pulse)
- [Employee happiness survey](https://fridaypulse.com/happiness-at-work-survey)
- [Take the happiness test](https://fridaypulse.com/the-happiness-test)

## Nic Marks

Nic Marks is the founder and Chief Statistician of Friday Pulse. He studied Mathematics at Cambridge before training in organizational change and psychotherapy, and founded the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation, where he created the Happy Planet Index and the Five Ways to Wellbeing. His 2010 TED talk on measuring happiness has been watched over two million times. He is the author of "Happiness is a Serious Business."

- [About Friday Pulse](https://fridaypulse.com/about)
- [nicmarks.org](https://nicmarks.org)
- [Happiness is a Serious Business](https://mybook.to/hiasb) (book)

## More

- [Customer stories](https://fridaypulse.com/customers)
- [Insights](https://fridaypulse.com/insights)
- [Articles](https://fridaypulse.com/articles)
- [Contact](https://fridaypulse.com/contact)