Bringing the body into the future of work.
Our mission is simple: to show you how to optimise your body for work, without your health paying the price.
We help founders and teams understand how the way they work affects their body, focus, energy and performance. Through assessment, AI adoption, education and targeted expert intervention, we help
you build a sustainable way of working.
A healthy team is the biggest ROI
for your business.
The cost of a burnt-out employee isn't just the sick days. It's the replacement, the recruitment, the ramp-up, and the institutional knowledge that leaves with them. Before any of that, it's months of a person performing at half capacity while everyone hopes it resolves itself.
Most companies respond by buying something: an app subscription, a fitness benefit, a wellbeing platform nobody opens. None of it touches the thing actually causing the problem, because nobody has looked at what that is.
We look first. Then we fix what's there.
WHY THE WORK BODY LABBuilt from a decade in big tech, and the health it cost.
I spent almost a decade working on global product launches at Apple and Google, in London and California, treating migraines, fatigue and constant stress with little recovery as part of the job.
At 35, an emergency surgery to remove a tumour made me reflect deeply on what I'd normalised, and I started seeing the same pattern in the people around me.
Work had been built around what our minds could produce. Almost nobody was looking at what it was taking from our bodies. The Work Body Lab exists to show people that cost early, while it's still easy to change, and to bring the body into the future of work.
Elyna Douglas, Founder
Founder, Elyna Douglas
PROBLEM
Modern Work Was Designed
From The Neck-up
Most of us spend the working day sitting, screen-facing, moving between meetings, forgetting to move for hours. Over time that combination costs something: energy, focus, sleep, and physical comfort. Most people have never been taught what's actually happening, or that it's connected to how they work at all.
So the symptoms get normalised. The afternoon crash, the neck tension that becomes a weekly occurrence, the sense of never being fully recovered after the weekend. By the time anyone names it, it's usually gone past the point where a wellbeing perk would have helped.
Our signature program: The Work Body Lab Foundations. A 3-6 month personalised intervention combining assessment, performance education and targeted expert support.
Our Services
Assessment & Report
A confidential assessment covering how your people work, move, recover and perform from sedentary time and physical strain to sleep, stress, focus and switching off. We turn the findings into a clear picture of what's affecting performance, what's been normalised, and where the biggest opportunities for change are.
Educational Workshops / Lunch & Learn sessions
Understand why the way you work affects performance. Tailored workshops translating your assessment findings into practical education, from the physical demands of desk-based work to focus, recovery, stress and working patterns. Your team learns what is happening, why it matters, and what they can do differently.
Expert-led Intervention
Put the right changes into practice. We bring in our partner specialists your assessment points to. Mobility movement coaches, nervous system practitioners, women's hormone health specialists, AI adoption for wellbeing experts, and more, matched to what's needed for your team. The intervention is selected around what your people need.
WHAT CHANGES?
Four weeks from now, you’ll
know things about your teams
health & performance you
can't see today.
You stop guessing.
You get a clear, written picture of how your team is actually doing, in their own words, before it shows up in their performance or their resignation.
Your people understand themselves.
Why energy drops when it does, why sleep goes first under pressure, why some weeks feel harder than the workload explains. They learn the causes, and what to do differently.
Recovery gets designed in.
Not postponed to the weekend, not left to willpower. Built into how the week is structured, we teach you what this can look like.
You know where to spend.
Wellbeing budgets are usually spent on assumptions. Yours gets spent on what the assessment actually found, in the places it revealed the cracks.
AI is giving your team time back. We show you how to use it.
AI, remote work and increasingly digital ways of working are changing how we spend our time, where we work and how much work we can produce.
The question is what we do with the capacity it creates, and what happens to the human doing the work?
TECHNOLOGY & THE BODY
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Short, deliberate movement built into the working day, in the gaps AI has opened up. Not a gym programme. Things that take ninety seconds and actually happen.
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Using automation to create real gaps between meetings and tasks, so recovery is designed into the day rather than pushed to the evening.
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Structuring the day around when people actually perform best, now that AI has removed the admin that used to dictate the shape of it.
Our Approach
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Almost a decade inside the head offices of Apple and Google, and a health cost that forced a rethink. This started as my own problem before it was a business.
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No generic wellbeing package. We assess what's actually happening in your team first, and the intervention follows from what we find.
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We bring in the best practitioner your findings point to. Mobility, nervous system, hormone health, AI adoption for wellbeing, and work design.
Get in touch today.
Not sure where to start? We’re here to help. Reach out with any questions, or if you're ready to dive right in, schedule a free consultation today.