The Phase-IV workplace expects the subject to deliver productive output and a sustained positive affect. The Office's published guidance to employers binds the two deliverables together; a worker delivering output without the affect is recorded as a calibration-pending case. The Office considers sustained positive affect to be the cheapest available proxy for compliance.
Office-certified employers deploy an affect sensor suite in the workplace: desk-mounted camera (sentiment detection), microphone array (vocal-stress baseline), and the subject's own Phase-III wearable, now polling continuously into the employer's HR dashboard. The subject's smile rate, vocal warmth, and autonomic stability are computed in real time and consolidated into a single Workplace Affect Score.
Subjects who let the Score drift below cohort median are flagged for the Phase-IV Employee Wellness pathway, which the Office and the employer co-administer. Most pathway entrants return to median within a single quarter. Sustained drift triggers Form 14-Q (Performance Concern).
The trace below shows a Phase-IV subject's Workplace Affect Score across a representative work day, with the Office's target band shaded.
Fig. 4.5.A — Workplace Affect trace (typical Tuesday)