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Workforce Design

The Trillions We’re Leaving On The Table

Workforces are under strain, and the consequences are becoming impossible to ignore.

This workplace performance wellbeing report exposes the trillions organisations are losing to hidden friction, burnout and systemic misalignment. Drawing on global research and new evidence from the Periodic Table of Workplace Thriving, it explains why performance, wellbeing and development must be managed as one system in the AI era.

November 24 2025·13 pages
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Productivity & Wellbeing

Advancing the role of temporal experience in relation to workplace thriving

Workplace rhythms shape the flow of information, feedback, learning and interpersonal interaction, influencing the conditions that support thriving

This academic paper explores organisational operating rhythms with a view to establishing a broader understanding of how they might be experienced in relation to wellbeing or thriving at both the organisational and individual levels. A model of operating rhythms is proposed, which integrates systems theory concepts alongside a new conception of individual and contextual enablers of thriving.

November 2024·17 pages
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Productivity & Wellbeing

The Periodic Table of Workplace Thriving

A New Lens on Wellbeing, Performance and Development in Rapidly Evolving Times

The Periodic Table of Workplace Thriving is a research-informed conceptual framework that integrates decades of psychological, organisational and systems science. It is designed to identify both the enablers and barriers of human thriving, bringing clarity to the factors that drive wellbeing, performance and development across individuals, teams, and broader social systems.

June 2025·14 pages
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