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This calculator surfaces the true financial cost of mental overload and nervous system strain within your organisation. Fill in what you know. The picture that emerges may surprise you.

Organisation Profile
Enter figures for your entire organisation, not your personal role.
Select the sector that best describes your primary business activity.
Total headcount across the entire organisation including part-time staff.
The average gross annual salary per employee across all levels.
Total revenue for the most recent full financial year.
Your net profit as a percentage of revenue. Estimate if exact figure is unknown.
Anyone in a management, team lead or director role who carries people responsibility.
How long, on average, employees have been with the organisation.
Approximate percentage of workforce working fully remote. Enter 0 if fully office-based.
Absenteeism & Sick Leave
Include all forms of absence — physical illness, stress, burnout and mental health related leave.
The average number of days each employee is absent due to illness per year.
Number of individual employees who took stress or burnout related leave in the past year.
When a stress or burnout leave occurs, how many weeks is the employee typically absent.
Total annual spend on temporary staff, overtime or external cover to replace absent employees.
Presenteeism
Present in body, absent in capacity. This is consistently the most underestimated cost in any organisation.
What percentage of your team are consistently not operating at their best — tired, distracted, going through the motions. Be honest.
1 = barely noticeable. 10 = significant and consistent loss of focus and output after midday across the team.
Employees formally diagnosed or self-reported as experiencing burnout in the past two years.
Your honest assessment of how well your people are doing overall. 10 = thriving. 1 = struggling significantly.
Mental, Emotional & Physical Health Load
These three pillars are deeply interconnected. A strain in one compounds the others.
Total annual investment in employee health programs, employee assistance programs, counselling or wellbeing initiatives.
Approximate percentage of your workforce currently using any mental health or counselling support provided or reimbursed by the company.
Number of reported cases of physical symptoms linked to work stress — headaches, back issues, fatigue disorders, sleep disruption, cardiovascular concerns.
Percentage of your team who appear disengaged from the why behind the work — going through the motions, questioning their role or direction. Estimate honestly.
Staff Turnover
Turnover is visible. What caused it rarely is.
Percentage of your workforce that left the organisation in the past 12 months, voluntarily or otherwise.
Total cost to hire one person — advertising, agency fees, interview time, HR admin. Use 0 if unknown and we will estimate based on salary.
How many months until a new hire is performing at full expected capacity.
Number of employees in leadership, specialist or revenue-generating roles who left in the past two years.
Performance, Errors & Quality
Cognitive overload is the primary driver of costly errors. The mind that carries too much misses what matters.
Number of incidents where mistakes required significant time, resources or money to correct.
The average cost of a single significant error — including staff time to fix, client impact, rework or reputational damage. Estimate if exact figure unknown.
Number of formal or significant informal client complaints received in the past year.
Your honest estimate of revenue not generated due to teams not performing at potential — missed targets, slow delivery, lost clients. Estimate if exact figure unknown.
Culture & Leadership Load
Culture is invisible until it breaks. Leadership carries more weight than any single budget line.
Number of formal or informal HR-managed situations involving interpersonal conflict, misconduct or team breakdown.
Estimated total hours per week across all managers spent managing people issues rather than productive work.
Most recent score from any staff survey, or your honest estimate. 10 = highly engaged and satisfied. 1 = significant disengagement.
Has the company experienced a significant change in CEO, MD or senior leadership team in the past three years?
How freely and frequently does new thinking, problem solving and creative initiative emerge across your teams. 10 = thriving. 1 = stagnant.
Your honest estimate of how long the current performance or cultural challenges have been present in the organisation.
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Your Results

The true cost of overload

Annual Cost Breakdown
Absenteeism & stress-related sick leave
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Presenteeism — reduced capacity & afternoon productivity loss
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Staff turnover — recruitment, onboarding & lost knowledge
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Errors, rework & quality failures
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Revenue lost to underperformance
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Management time absorbed by culture & conflict
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Healthcare, EAP & mental health spend
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Temporary cover & absence replacement
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Estimated Annual Financial Leakage
This is what overload is costing your organisation each year
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Organisational Risk Level —
If Nothing Changes
Projected cost over 3 years at current trajectory
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Cost per employee annually
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Leakage as % of annual revenue
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Estimated operational capacity being realised
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SAMI KALLIO
Mental Load & Nervous System Overload
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