The Signal Calculator

What are your signals
actually costing you?

Your organisation is generating signals right now — turnover, sick leave, disengagement, burnout. You're already paying for them. You just can't see it in one place. Five minutes, four numbers, and you'll have a conservative figure.

Tell us about your organisation

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Resignations, exits, terminations — anyone who walked out the door.
Optional. Psychosocial-related claims, disputes, WorkSafe matters. Leave blank if none.
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Conservative, NZ-benchmarked figures. Nothing leaves your screen until you choose.

Conservatively, your organisation is leaking
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Every year

A careful, de-duplicated range — the part most organisations never see, sitting underneath the sick-leave line they already track.

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Where the number comes from, how you compare to the NZ average, how much is recoverable, and what to do with it — plus a one-page PDF to keep. Tell us where to send it.

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Here's where it's going

Four lenses on the same problem. Each one is deliberately conservative.

We don't add these up. The same people show up in more than one lens — the person who left was often the one who'd quietly checked out months earlier. Stacking them would count the same humans two and three times. So instead, here's a careful range: from your single biggest driver, up to a de-duplicated combined figure.
Your realistic annual range
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How you compare

Your figure against the average NZ organisation of your size — operational signals only, fines excluded.

Your organisation$0
NZ average, your size$0

So what does this actually mean?

This isn't a line on a spreadsheet.

It's the part of your organisation you've been feeling for a while — you just couldn't put a figure on it until now:

  • The resignation that landed on a Tuesday and blindsided you.
  • The manager who's quietly running on empty.
  • The two teams that have stopped talking to each other.
  • The claim building somewhere under the surface that nobody's named yet.

You can always see the sick-leave line. It's everything underneath it that's been costing you — and you've felt it as "why is all of this so much harder than it should be?"

The number isn't the problem. It's the symptom. The signals are already there. Right now, nobody has the language to catch them early.

You don't have to fix all of it.

Fix the cause and every layer drops at once. Even a modest shift puts real money back.

5% back
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10% back
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20% back
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So what do you do with this?

Doing nothing is the expensive option.

You're already paying about a year for the problem — and getting nothing back for it. Put that money toward fixing the cause instead, and the New Zealand research is clear:

$4.20 back for every $1 invested in good systemsNZ Mental Health Foundation

Done in advance — as prevention, not crisis clean-up. Recover even 10% and that's a year, every year. The money is already walking out the door. The only question is whether you get any of it back.

And here's what's in it for you

Knowing the number doesn't change the number.

Awareness isn't the fix — it's the start. Right now, you're probably the one carrying this: you can sense where the pressure is, but you can't fully prove it, and you can't fully answer the ISO 45003 question when it gets asked.

That's the bit we change. Not a survey. Not an audit. A diagnostic that tells you where the risk actually sits — so you can act before it becomes an incident, an investigation, or a person you wish you'd reached sooner.

For youLess firefighting. A shared language your whole team can use. And you get to be the one who saw it coming — not the one explaining why it wasn't caught.
For the businessFix the cause and every one of those layers drops at once. That's not a wellbeing line item — that's margin.

What that actually buys you: fewer exits, teams that talk to each other again, people who aren't running on empty — and a business that simply works better.

Your next step

Find which 10% to fix first.

The number told you it's costing you. The Psychosocial Risk Assessment tells you where — and gives you the pathway to do something about it. A 30-minute discovery call is where it starts.

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Sources & method. Turnover: leavers × 40% of average salary (conservative; NZ range 50–200%) — Lawson Williams NZ Staff Turnover Survey · MBIE. Sick leave: staff × $1,235 median cost per absent employee — Southern Cross / BusinessNZ Workplace Wellness. Disengagement: actively-disengaged staff (~15%) × 18% of salary in lost output — Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2024. Burnout: 57% at high burnout risk × a conservative $3,500 productivity drag — Massey wellbeing@work 2024. Lenses are not summed; we show a range from the single largest driver to a de-duplicated combined figure to avoid counting the same people twice. Return on investment: about $4.20 returned for every $1 invested in effective workplace mental-health systems — NZ Mental Health Foundation. Figures are rough, conservative and indicative — not financial advice.
DivergenThinking — system repair, not self-help.