Insights

Understanding
Happiness Impact

Happiness Impact is more than a measurement framework — it is an ongoing conversation about how organizations affect people's happiness and wellbeing. Insights is its intellectual home: a place where ideas, research and evidence come together.

Start here · A founding essay

From wealth creation to wellbeing creation

For more than two centuries, we have become increasingly sophisticated at understanding how organizations create prosperity.

Happiness Impact asks the next question: How do organizations affect people's lives?

The Founding Essay introduces the ideas behind Happiness Impact and the ambition to establish a new way of understanding organizations.

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From the essay

“Organizations have learned to measure almost everything. It is time to measure what matters most.”

A growing library

Ideas shape the future before data does

As the international initiative grows, Insights will continue to expand with essays, reports, scientific publications, articles and data-driven insights.

Scientific publications Coming

Access to the scientific publications that contribute to the ongoing development of the Happiness Impact framework.

Reports First report out

Each national study is accompanied by a report presenting key findings, patterns and implications — growing into an international library of Happiness Impact studies.

Happiness Impact Report — Sweden 2026 (PDF)

Articles Coming

Ideas deserve conversation. Articles on organizations, wellbeing and measurement — written for researchers, leaders, policymakers, journalists and the curious.

Data stories & visualisations Coming

Interactive visualisations and data stories combining research, analysis and visualisation to communicate important findings in accessible ways.

The one question

“What is its Happiness Impact?

Every important insight begins with a better question.

Read the Founding Essay →