Science & insight

Notes from the WelloWork research team.

A working space for methodology notes, literature reviews, and observations from pilot cohorts. We publish work-in-progress with caveats, not finished claims.

What lives under Science & insight? Methodology notes, mini-literature reviews, and observations from early pilot cohorts. The goal is to show our working — including the places where the literature does not yet support the kind of claim a marketing page would want to make.

What can readers expect here?

Short, dated notes on a specific construct or design decision. Each note will name its primary sources, identify where it's a working hypothesis versus an established finding, and link back to the methodology overview for context.

What will be published first?

  • A note on within-employee normalisation versus population-relative scoring.
  • A short review of N-back task transfer effects — including the meta-analyses where transfer is weaker than the original studies suggested.
  • Notes on minimum-team-size thresholds for manager-visible aggregates.
  • Observations on session-cadence drop-off in early pilots, and the design changes we tried in response.

What this is not

This is not a marketing blog and not a peer-reviewed publication. It's the in-between layer where we keep ourselves honest in public. Anything that graduates into a peer-reviewed venue we'll link to from here once it exists.

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