Most people don't start their work day. They get ambushed by it. An email, a Slack ping, a meeting that was already running. By the time you look up, it's 3pm, your back hurts, and you haven't drunk any water.
Ending the day isn't much better. You close your laptop, but your mind keeps running the same loops: the reply you didn't send, the task you forgot, the vague sense that you should still be doing something.
We built Work rhythm to fix both of those edges.
What it is
Work rhythm is a feature inside Whole that wraps your working day in three adaptive phases: before, during, and after. You set your schedule (different hours for different days, weekends off) and Whole does the rest.
Before: arrive on purpose
Fifteen minutes before your start time (adjustable), Whole opens a short grounding ritual. What you see depends on how you're tracking. If your halo score is high, you get a simple intention prompt: what matters most today? If you're carrying more, the app offers a gentler check-in with a breathing or body-scan practice.
The goal isn't to add a task. It's to create a two-minute threshold between your personal life and your professional one.
During: stay aware without being interrupted
During work hours, Work rhythm runs a quiet heads-up display. No pop-ups, no forced breaks. Just optional nudges you can enable:
All four are off by default. You opt in to what helps and ignore the rest.
After: close the day cleanly
When your work hours end, Whole surfaces the after phase. This is where you decompress:
Once you close the day, Whole shows your halo delta: did your overall wellbeing go up, down, or hold steady between morning and evening? Over a week, these deltas become a story about how work is affecting you.
The week view
At the bottom of the Work rhythm page, a simple seven-day grid shows two dots per day (before and after completion) and a bar for fully closed days. It's a visual streak that rewards consistency without gamifying it.
Who it's for
Work rhythm is available to Pro members and anyone on an organisation plan. It's accessible through the You menu, not the bottom nav, because it's a feature you visit with intention rather than a tab you check reflexively.
Why it matters
The conversation around workplace wellbeing usually focuses on what happens outside work: sleep more, exercise, meditate. But the transitions into and out of work are where most people lose their footing. A clean start and a clean close change the texture of the entire day.
Work rhythm doesn't ask you to do more. It asks you to notice the edges of your day and treat them with a little more care.