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.
Estimates are conservative by design, based on published research benchmarks. For precise figures, a Daylight engagement is required.
The estimated organisational cost attributable to psychosocial hazards, based on your workforce data and published research benchmarks. Generated .
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
If Daylight cannot identify a minimum of 5× our engagement fee in estimated financial exposure — across your cost categories, sourced and cited — you don't pay. The engagement fee is waived.
Your Alignment Documentation and Board Governance Pack will map directly to the ISO 45003:2021 psychosocial hazard framework. If your internal HR or Risk team determines that our algorithmic mapping does not trace back to these recognised global standards — the engagement fee is waived. You don't pay.
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, an ISO 45003-aligned Compliance Pack, and Manager Playbooks built for your highest-risk teams — typically within two weeks of survey close.
We'll walk you through a live sample output using figures like yours — so you can evaluate quality before committing to anything.
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