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Your estimated cost of unmanaged psychosocial risk.

Enter your organisation's figures and see your estimated annual financial exposure, each figure derived from peer-reviewed Australian and global benchmarks.

This is the number your CFO needs before any conversation about investment makes sense.

Research Foundations
SHRM: Turnover replacement cost (50–200% of salary; model uses conservative 1.5×)
ABS National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing (2020–22): At-risk prevalence (22%)
Gallup 2025: Presenteeism productivity loss (18% of at-risk)
Published workplace health research: Excess absenteeism (model uses conservative 8.7 days/yr)
Harvard Business Review / ICM Unlimited (2016): Employer brand premium (10%)
The Myers-Briggs Company (2022); CPP Inc. (2008): Manager conflict time (2–4 hrs/week)
Your Workforce
$
% of workforce who leave each year
%
% of scheduled time lost (avg ~3.2%)
%
Leadership Layer
$
Industry
Applies sector-specific risk prevalence multipliers from Safe Work Australia

Estimates are conservative by design, based on published research benchmarks. For precise figures, a Daylight engagement is required.

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Psychosocial Risk
Financial Exposure Report

The estimated organisational cost attributable to psychosocial hazards, based on your workforce data and published research benchmarks. Generated .

Based on an estimated at-risk employees, 22% of your -person workforce (ABS, 2022)
Total Annual Exposure
$
Attributable to psychosocial risk
Exposure Per Employee
$
annual, per head
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Estimated Return on Action ?Recovery rates are modelled from published benchmarks (Safe Work Australia, SHRM, Gallup, Medibank Private) showing that organisations who systematically address psychosocial hazards recover a measurable portion of associated costs. Rates increase as interventions embed over time.
$
Minimal
Adoption
Partial
Adoption
Moderate
Adoption
Strong
Adoption
Full
Adoption
If psychosocial risks are actioned
All teams equipped
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Voluntary Turnover & Replacement
Annual cost
$—
Est. return
—%
$—

Each voluntary departure costs an estimated 1.5x annual salary in recruitment, onboarding, and productivity loss (SHRM estimates 50–200% depending on role; model uses conservative 1.5×). An estimated 50% of voluntary turnover is attributable to psychosocial factors, role ambiguity, poor management, and workload (work-stress turnover research consistently cites 30–50%). Turnover is typically the largest single category and the most directly addressable through intervention.

Presenteeism & Productivity Yield Loss
Annual cost
$—
Est. return
—%
$—

Employees in psychological distress operate at an estimated 18% reduced capacity (Gallup, 2025). The ABS estimates 22% of Australians experience a mental health condition in any 12-month period (ABS, 2022), physically present, substantively absent. Presenteeism costs organisations 3× more than absenteeism annually (Medibank/Econtech).

Unplanned Absenteeism
Annual cost
$—
Est. return
—%
$—

At-risk employees take an average of 8.7 additional unplanned sick days per year above the baseline (published workplace health research; SWA confirms mental health claims involve 5× the median time lost vs other injuries). Your reported absenteeism rate is used to scale this figure, organisations with absenteeism above the national average of 3.2% typically see proportionally higher excess days among at-risk employees.

Manager Time, People Issue Burden
Annual cost
$—
Est. return
—%
$—

In organisations with unmanaged psychosocial hazards, managers spend an estimated 2–4 excess hours per week managing conflict, underperformance, and distress beyond normal management baseline (The Myers-Briggs Company, 2022; CPP Global Human Capital Report, 2008). Manager Playbooks directly address this category by giving each manager a specific, hazard-targeted action plan.

Employer Brand Erosion & Recruitment Premium
Annual cost
$—
Est. return
—%
$—

Organisations with poor psychological safety reputations pay an estimated 10% premium on recruitment costs due to reduced applicant quality (Harvard Business Review / ICM Unlimited, 2016). In high-turnover environments this compounds as reputation erodes on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and professional networks. This is the slowest-responding category, recovery is primarily a Year 2 story.

WHS Claims & Compliance Exposure
Annual cost
$—
Est. return
—%
$—

Approximately 1% of workforce submit a psychological injury claim annually (Safe Work Australia). The median claim costs $67,400 (Safe Work Australia, 2025), before insurance premium uplift, legal fees, or regulatory prosecution risk. Proactive psychosocial hazard identification provides timestamped documentation that evidences a proactive approach to risk management.

Total annual exposure
$
All six categories
Estimated return on action
$
At selected scenario
At-risk employees
Est. 22% of workforce (ABS, 2022)
These are conservative estimates based on published research.
Method
22% at-risk workforce (ABS, 2022) × your inputs × research-backed attribution factors
Sources
Safe Work Australia, SHRM, Gallup, and Medibank Private
Benchmark
Median psychological injury claim: $67,400, before premium uplift, legal fees, or executive time (Safe Work Australia, 2025)
Calibration
A Daylight engagement replaces these benchmarks with findings specific to your organisation. Quarterly review cycles under the Daylight Governance Retainer replace projected recoveries with measured outcomes.
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What Happens Next

The diagnostic replaces these estimates with your organisation's actual data.

The figures in this report are benchmarks, conservative ones, from credible sources, applied to your workforce inputs. What a Daylight engagement produces is a different thing entirely: findings specific to your departments, your hazard profile, and your people's anonymous responses. Not an estimate. A finding.

You receive a C-Suite Financial Snapshot, a Departmental X-Ray Report, a Compliance Evidence Vault, a Psychosocial Risk Register, a Consultation Record, and Curated Manager Playbooks built for your highest-risk teams, within 14 business days of survey close.

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