The Cost of the Mental Load
Life doesn’t stop when the work day starts.
Your team carries life burdens into work and it costs you in focus lost and people gone. See what that adds up to for your organization, and what Restore the Day gives back.
The focus your people lose
Employees average about 1.6 hours per work day on personal and life tasks1 — because those things can’t wait. Adjust to your reality.
The people you lose
75% of voluntary turnover is preventable2 — and every exit costs far more than the job posting.
Pre-filled at half of average annual salary — Gallup’s conservative floor.3
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What Restore the Day gives back
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How we calculate this
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Productivity savings
Hours lost annually = employees × hours lost per day × 240 workdays
Hours gained = hours lost annually × improvement %
Productivity savings = hours gained × average hourly wage
1 The 1.6 hours/day default comes from a Robert Half / OfficeTeam survey of U.S. office workers: an average of 56 minutes per day of non-work mobile use plus 42 minutes on personal tasks (source). We use 240 workdays per year (260 weekdays minus ~4 weeks of PTO and holidays) — deliberately conservative. Annual salaries convert to hourly at 2,080 hours per year.
Retention savings
Employees lost = employees × attrition rate
Attrition expense = employees lost × cost per exit
Employees retained = employees × reduction (percentage points)
Retention savings = employees retained × cost per exit
2 The Work Institute’s Retention Report finds about 75% of voluntary exits are preventable (source).
3 Gallup estimates replacing an employee costs one-half to two times their annual salary — and calls that conservative. We pre-fill the bottom of that range, 0.5× salary, and you can enter your own figure (source).
Days restored
Days restored = hours gained ÷ 8
Only productivity hours are converted to days — retention value is counted in dollars, never twice.