The Atlas People & Culture Index (PCI)
A Workplace Culture Map & Measure
HR teams have no shortage of workplace surveys but most of them are asking yesterday's boring questions. Engagement surveys are disengaging, and pulse surveys are failing to find a pulse.
What is the PCI?
The People and Culture Index (PCI) grew out of interviews with over a hundred HR and people leaders, and one simple question:
What do you wish you knew about your staff that your current tools can't tell you?
The result is a short (no more than 5 minutes) low-burden fully anonymous survey that goes separately to leaders and staff, exploring whether the workplace culture makes room for the people inside it, whether the values on the wall match the mood in the room, what actually drives people and whether staff and leaders are looking at the same future.
What are the themes of the PCI?
We start by capturing gender, age, priorities and tenure.
- Cultural Infusion: Wherein we explore if your team find their place in the 'workplace culture', and might any aspect of their identity be perceived a professional barrier?
- The Vibe: Values might come from the top, but we take a look inside-out. What’s really happening in the workplace?
- Crystal Ball: Every organisation lives in the present, but people make decisions based on the future. Crystal Ball looks at what staff and leaders think lies ahead.
The business case
Workplace culture shapes how people perform, stay, grow; and understanding it is key to building a stronger organisation.
The competition for talent attraction and the battle for talent retention is very real.
The lived culture of a workplace can influence both.
In thriving cultures we can draw a straight line to increased productivity and profits.
Benchmarking your PCI will also help you understand also where your organisation sits in the context of your region or industry.
Analysing the ‘perception gap’ between leaders and staff is essential data to build a thriving culture.
Sample Question (from Crystal Ball)
"On what issue do you think this organisation should primarily focus to improve its workplace culture over the next two years?"
Options (up to 3)
Ageism
AI readiness
Cultural / racial equity & awareness
Diverse hiring
Disability awareness
ERG (Employee Reference Group) creation / expansion
Flexible work
Gender parity
Inclusive talent pipeline / career progression
Leadership values / behaviours
Neurodiversity awareness
Religious accommodations
Sexuality / Pride inclusion
Social events
Unconscious bias training
None of the above
Other / Not listed
Prefer not to answer
Results
Sample analysis
Staff
Flexible work
60%
Inclusive talent pipeline / career progression
33%
AI Readiness
30%
Gender Parity
30%
Social events
8.3%
Other / Not listed
8.3%
Cultural / racial equity & awareness
8.3%
Neurodiversity awareness
8.3%
Prefer not to answer
6.5%
Ageism
5.1%
Disability awareness
0%
ERG (Employee Reference Group) creation / expansion
0%
None of the above
0%
Diverse Hiring
0%
Religious accommodations
0%
Sexuality / Pride inclusion
0%
Unconscious bias training
0%
Leaders
AI Readiness
80%
Gender Parity
40%
Inclusive talent pipeline / career progression
23%
Social events
20%
Flexible work
16%
Ageism
12.5%
Cultural / racial equity & awareness
6%
Diverse Hiring
0%
Disability awareness
0%
ERG (Employee Reference Group) creation / expansion
0%
Other / Not listed
0%
Neurodiversity awareness
0%
Religious accommodations
0%
Sexuality / Pride inclusion
0%
Unconscious bias training
0%
Prefer not to answer
0%
None of the above
0%
The process, in a nutshell
Free-text questions are also included. As the platform is properly anonymous, the comments will carry more weight.
Atlas dashboard / platform is licensed for a year
Atlas is hosted on AWS servers and cannot be connected to your HR system
(This is wholly a third-party process)
Surveys are totally, properly anonymous, and privacy law compliant, globally
After generating survey links, the customer sends the surveys out separately to Leaders and Staff
The surveys take less than five minutes
There are 23 Leader questions and 26 Staff questions
Data may be segmented by groups (eg: region, business units) but this is optional
Up to five administrators will have access to the Atlas interactive dashboard with live results.
Cultural Infusion will also provide a PCI report upon completion
Foundational Pricing (2026)
PCI
Staff Count
Price (USD)
Up to 200
$500
201 to 2,500
$1,000
2,500 to 5,000
$2,000
5,001 to 10,000
$2,500
10,000+
POA
20% discount for registered charities.
Adding questions will require additional funding.
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Survey Author: Quincy Hall
Implementation: My Linh Le
Data Science: Mary Legrand
The People & Culture Index (PCI) © Cultural Infusion 2026
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