Workplace Bullying Calculator
Have you ever stopped to consider the financial cost of doing nothing?
All of the research from the past four decades agrees: perpetrators target the best & brightest talent, the ones you can least afford to lose, the hardest to recruit & retain. When calculating the cost of condoning perpetrators, variables include:
- 13% (the national % of employees currently abused);
- 77% (the % of targets who quit + constructively discharged + terminated as the result of the fallout after the abuse they experienced);
- number of employees;
- average annual salary; and
- 50% of salary (est. recruitment and replacement costs for lost employee).
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References:
13% – from 2021 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey.
77% – from 2012 WBI Strategy Effectiveness Survey.
50% – from 2021 Forbes article, “How to Avoid High Turnover Costs…” by Paula Morgan.
This figure does not take into consideration the significant cost to the organization whenever:
- a perpetrator’s direct manager counsels the perpetrator;
- a target’s direct manager counsels the victim;
- HR talks with manager, perpetrator, and target;
- HR talks with executives; or
- Legal involvement is required.
The best estimate we’ve seen to date for this cost is an average of $83,000 per case.
Let that sink in a moment. Your organization is losing ~10% of your workforce and incurring tremendous cost each year, simply because your policies and procedures continue to tolerate workplace bullies. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that – for the past quarter-century – we’ve been hard at work developing the only research-driven services that protect and preserve the psychological health and safety of every employee, constrain known perpetrators, and sustain the initiative indefinitely without an endless reliance on consultants.
If you’re ready to finally address the problem for what it is in your organization, please click the image to learn more.
