Begin to think about the potential impact of the human factor in your department. What does this mean to you? To your Staff? To your Department’s overall level of productivity and morale?

The productivity formula used by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce captures the hidden loss and cost of productivity declines by measuring the impact of employees suffering with personal difficulties. Consider this as the cost of not having or not utilizing an Employee Assistance Program:

• Troubled employees are estimated to work at only 75% efficiency.
• 10% - 25% of the employees of any given organization are estimated to have personal problems affecting their job performance at any given time.
• The formula:

  Average employee wage
  X
  10% of your total number of staff
  X
  25% in lost efficiency
  
  = Conservative estimate of annual loss in productivity