The science of happiness at work
We've spent the last 15 years researching how happy teams improve workplaces and how to build them.
Foundations
The key principles
Understand: Happiness drives performance
Happiness is dynamic. It signals fit, fuels creativity and resilience - and OK can hold teams back.
Track: Measure what matters
Spot trends early, understand change, and keep teams moving forward by measuring happiness regularly.
Build: Turn insight into action
Build trust, strengthen relationships, and improve performance over time with simple habits like measure, meet, repeat.
In depth
Our whitepapers
Free whitepaper
The Future Of Employee Engagement: The Case For The Happiness KPI
Employee engagement is a stagnant idea. And while “How have you felt at work this week?” may feel like an awkward question to ask employees, talking about people’s emotional experience of work — their happiness — and measuring it in the workplace can lead to improved team morale, greater resilience, more innovation and greater productivity.
Free whitepaper
The Five Ways to Happiness at Work
Happiness is the workplace of the future, but creating a positive organizational culture is not easy. We’ve determined five key ways to happiness at work that will improve your employees' work experience, bring change to your team and grow your company in a post-pandemic world.
Our insights
The latest from Friday Pulse
Apr 2026
Your HR platform measures engagement. But does it improve it?
So your HR platform now offers pulse surveys. Maybe even a way to celebrate or thank colleagues. And if you’re already paying for it, maybe it feels like an easy cost saving to just use that instead of a dedicated engagement platform. On the surface, it makes sense.
Mar 2026
A client experience: Two years of asking “How are you?” every week
In this guest piece, Mike Sharp, Ops Director at Launch , a Friday Pulse client, shares what happened after two years of asking their team a simple question every week: How happy were you at work this week?
Feb 2026
Recruitment starts long before the job ad
Gearing up for some hiring? Don’t forget to consider your team happiness and culture.
Jan 2026
Why good intentions aren’t enough: how teams really thrive
Good intentions are easy. Lasting change comes from the small habits teams repeat day after day, week after week, month after month.
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