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your workforce, your number.
Adjusts the productivity-loss benchmark by ×1.15.
Modelled year-one return
€749,650
recovered for 150 employees, out of €2,745,750 a year lost by doing nothing
- sick days saved
- 270
- days a year
- per employee
- €4,998
- recovered a year
- share recovered
- 27%
- of the cost of doing nothing
- Sick-day savings€79,773
- Productivity recovery€121,440
- Fewer strain-related replacements€548,438
73% of this return comes from fewer replacements of people lost to strain, the assumption with the widest real-world range. A pilot measures it for your own team.
how we got these numbers.
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| Preventable productivity loss150 employees × €3,200 benchmark × 1.15 technology adjustment | €552,000 |
|---|---|
| Burnout replacement cost15% annual burnout rate × 150 employees × €97,500 per replacement (1.5× salary) | €2,193,750 |
| Cost of one sick day€65,000 salary ÷ 220 working days | €295 |
| Sick-day savings18% fewer sick days = 270 days × €295 | €79,773 |
|---|---|
| Productivity recovery22% of preventable productivity loss | €121,440 |
| Fewer strain-related replacements25% of burnout replacement cost | €548,438 |
| Modelled year-one returnSum of the three savings above | €749,650 |
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A 12–16 week controlled pilot measures it on your own teams: intervention teams against comparison teams, with one economic test. Recovered productive capacity has to be greater than the cost of intervention. A real person replies within one business day.
Productivity benchmark: McKinsey Health Institute, 2023. Other rates are Canary's modelling assumptions, listed above. These are estimates, not contractual guarantees; individual results vary.