Better Jobs Mean Better Business®
WORC helps impact investors and businesses capture untapped value with the hidden asset at the bottom of the org chart – lower-level workers.
What We Do
Actionable Workforce Diagnostics
Science-backed workforce diagnostics for actionable insights — each diagnostic points directly to what you can do to achieve business goals through people.
Research for Impact
Driving job quality innovation for positive business results through rigorous research and expert program evaluation.
Why WORC?
Driving Business Results
If you’re not strengthening your workforce, the science is clear – you’re leaving money on the table. A stable workforce is a chronically underutilized engine to achieve outsized financial and impact results. WORC helps leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies unlock this value.
Measuring Impact
Our science-backed worker voice diagnostics help you streamline stakeholder reporting by concisely measuring improvements over time with a single standardized impact score.
Reducing Risk
WORC diagnostics swiftly uncover risks, strengths, and opportunities for a targeted and bespoke approach to workforce improvements that reduce risks – like high turnover – and boost your bottom line.
Who We Are
WORC envisions a thriving economy where every worker has a job worth having.
WORC’s founder and CEO, Ellen Frank-Miller, PhD, has spent her 30-year career collaborating with investors, employers, national advocates, charitable foundations, and nonprofits to drive positive business impact and alpha by improving the quality of lower-level jobs in verticals such as healthcare, industrials, manufacturing, and retail.