the €960K cost of doing nothing.
For a 300-person company, at the McKinsey Health Institute's benchmark of €3,200 per employee per year in preventable productivity loss, that's €960,000 walking out the door.
Canary detects the loss of employee capacity before it becomes a loss of business capacity — earlier than an annual survey, before it becomes a resignation, a sick note, or a board question you can't answer.
€960,000
a year in preventable productivity loss, before a single sick day is logged
- Employees
- 300
- Benchmark per employee
- €3,200
- Source
- McKinsey Health Institute, 2023
four questions, one gap.
If any answer is “not yet”, the cost is already running.
- Annual surveys measure damage that's already done. Do you find out about burnout when someone quits — or while there's still time to act?
- Each person keeps a private Canary Score, read week by week. Five or more combine into the team's Sustainable Capacity Index, so the slope shows earlier than an annual survey, while there is still time to act. The model is in a prospective validation study, and we say so until it is proven.
- If the board asked for the ROI on your wellness budget tomorrow, could you show a number — or a programme nobody uses?
- A live CFO ROI model, not a guess — sick-day deltas, productivity recovery, and burnout-replacement cost, quantified in euros and refreshed every quarter.
- Is your workforce health data ready for CSRD reporting, or will your sustainability team be chasing it by hand?
- CSRD S1 export — pre-formatted, auditable workforce health metrics that drop straight into your sustainability filing. No manual re-entry.
- When sick days tick up 20% in a quarter, do you know why — or just see the number on a spreadsheet?
- The Sustainable Capacity Index: one number per team, built from five or more Canary Scores and never from one person, so silent strain shows up as a trend line before it shows up as a headcount problem.
a defensible number, not a wellness score.
A quarterly ROI report formatted for board presentation — sick-day delta against the pre-programme baseline, productivity recovery estimate, absenteeism trend, and the 12-month ROI multiple. Expressed in euros, not scores.
- Sick days vs. pre-programme baseline
- −0.9 per person
- Productivity recovery estimate
- €121,400
- Absenteeism trend
- Falling, 2 quarters
- 12-month ROI multiple
- 3.1×
Expressed in euros, not scores. Board-ready export every quarter.
what Julia sees, week by week.
- week 35Product drifts below its own normal.
- week 38Silent strain detected: three weeks below normal.
- week 40Two meetings move to async; two focus blocks protected.
- week 44Back within the team's normal.
- Product · SCI 67
- Engineering · SCI 69
- Sales · SCI 72
Team-level only · minimum 5 people · no individual data
the whole idea, in one conversation.
CSRD-ready, not a fire drill in Q1.
Workforce health metrics, pre-formatted and auditable, ready to drop straight into your CSRD S1 sustainability filing. No manual re-entry, no scrambling for a number three weeks before the deadline.
One continuous workforce trend line, board- and filing-ready on demand — and no re-baselining if you ever switch tools.
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a 12–16 week controlled pilot.
We don't ask you to believe it. We test it: 2–4 intervention teams against 2–4 comparison teams, six outcomes, and one economic test — recovered productive capacity greater than the cost of intervention.
Baseline
Energy, recovery, workload, focus, working hours, meeting load, quality and productivity — measured before anything changes.
Detect
Find silent strain: teams whose Sustainable Capacity Index stays below their own normal.
Intervene
Reduce meetings, reprioritise workload, protect focus time, adjust staffing, improve scheduling, change decision rights.
Measure
Compare intervention and comparison teams on health, capacity and business outcomes. Renew, expand, or walk away.
see the number before you approve the budget.
A controlled pilot produces your first real ROI data point before any company-wide commitment. No commitment, EU servers, a real person within one business day.