The standard annual employee survey gives managers little insight into how workforce stress is changing. Ed Shee, CTO at WONE, says one data point a year tells almost nothing about direction; two people can score the same while one is recovering and the other is declining. That leaves managers unable to intervene before burnout, absenteeism, and turnover take hold.
WONE offers an alternative that combines a monthly validated psychometric assessment, wearable data on physiological stress markers, and conversations with an AI coach called Ori. Chief Scientific Officer Lydia Roos describes "stress intelligence" as a trainable skill: detecting stress signals early, interpreting them across psychological, behavioural, and physiological systems, and responding in ways that support recovery. Organisations can support it by treating rest as necessary for sustained performance rather than as a cost.
The platform also gives managers team-level visibility, so when scores drop across a group, structural issues like workload or resourcing can be addressed. In a study of 1,000 US and UK employees, WONE found that highly stressed workers take eight times as many sick days, are nearly four times more likely to be considering leaving, and file two and a half times as many health claims. Managers themselves are not exempt: those with weaker resilience resources were about three times more likely to report burnout.