EEmber · What is crew strain costing you?
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What is crew strain actually costing you?

Churn, absence and rework are the costs you pay after the fact, usually filed under the wrong cause. Put in three numbers you already know and see what untraced crew strain plausibly costs your business in a year.

This is an estimate built from your inputs and published HSE and Oxford Economics figures. It is not a measurement of your actual losses, and every figure is rounded down. Treat it as the order of magnitude, not the penny.

Your numbers
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If you can put a rough annual figure on work that had to be redone because crews were stretched or rushed, add it. We never invent this number, so it only counts if you enter it.
Estimated annual cost of inaction
£83,000 – £122,000
A plausible range for a 40-operative operation, based on your inputs and published figures below.
Replacing the people who left Your day rate over ~220 working days, costed at 6 to 9 months per replacement
£79,000–119,000
Hidden stress-related absence HSE: ~2.9% of workers carry a stress case, 19.6 days lost each, at your day rate
£4,000
A single experienced operative walking costs you roughly £19,000–£29,000 to replace, lost productivity, recruitment and getting someone back up to speed. For comparison, Oxford Economics and Unum put the average replacement cost at £30,614.
The Site Cover is £36,000 a year.

Prevent just 2 of those departures, and it has paid for itself, and you have the dated record an inspector or client asks for on top.

The next step costs nothing
See it on your own crews

The numbers are the cost. The 60-second crew strain check shows you the cause: your real drivers, scored live on your own input, on a real tracker and log.

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Sources. HSE, Work-related stress, anxiety or depression statistics in Great Britain, 2024/25 (≈964,000 workers affected; 19.6 working days lost per case). Oxford Economics & Unum, cost of staff turnover (£30,614 average replacement cost of an experienced employee). Replacement modelled conservatively at 6 to 9 months of the operative’s own cost over ~220 working days a year. Absence modelled at the HSE workforce stress-case rate applied to your headcount.
This is an estimate, not a measurement. Figures are illustrative, rounded down, and depend entirely on the numbers you enter. EEmber supports a timestamped, audit-ready evidence record and reasonable-steps evidence; it does not by itself make any organisation compliant with any framework, and it does not guarantee any reduction in cost, churn or absence. · EEmber · eember.co.uk · Twinio Ltd