Skin-deep resilience: the hidden performance risk in law.

Skin-deep resilience: the hidden performance risk in law.

New WONE Index analysis reveals the paradox at the heart of legal performance: by traditional measures, the sector continues to perform. Yet across nine industries and more than 1,000 working adults, legal reports the highest workplace stress and burnout of any industry measured, alongside some of the lowest resilience capacity. This report gives legal leaders a data-backed view of the hidden gap between visible performance and the capacity required to sustain and improve it.

New WONE Index analysis reveals the paradox at the heart of legal performance: by traditional measures, the sector continues to perform. Yet across nine industries and more than 1,000 working adults, legal reports the highest workplace stress and burnout of any industry measured, alongside some of the lowest resilience capacity. This report gives legal leaders a data-backed view of the hidden gap between visible performance and the capacity required to sustain and improve it.

Inside the report

  • The WONE Index data across nine industries, and where legal sits on stress, burnout, and resilience capacity

  • Why your highest performers may be carrying the greatest hidden risk, and why your metrics won't show it until later

  • The workplace conditions driving depletion

  • Five practical shifts to build true resilience as a measurable performance capability



  • The WONE Index data across nine industries, and where legal sits on stress, burnout, and resilience capacity

  • Why your highest performers may be carrying the greatest hidden risk, and why your metrics won't show it until later

  • The workplace conditions driving depletion

  • Five practical shifts to build true resilience as a measurable performance capability

Workplace stress, resilience by industry

True resilience is built

If the data resonates, James Atherton, our Head of Commercial, is available for a focused conversation with legal sector leaders.

True resilience is built

If the data resonates, James Atherton, our Head of Commercial, is available for a focused conversation with legal sector leaders.

True resilience is built

If the data resonates, James Atherton, our Head of Commercial, is available for a focused conversation with legal sector leaders.