Free Diagnostic Tool

How Much Is Cognitive Depletion Costing Your Payroll?

Most teams lose 25-40% of their cognitive capacity to dehydration and caffeine crashes. Calculate what that's costing you — in real dollars.

Average finding: companies lose $3,800/employee/year to energy leaks

Your Payroll Leak Report

Answer 4 quick questions. Takes 60 seconds. No email required.

Step 1 of 4

How many full-time employees are on your team?

Include anyone working in your office, hybrid, or on-site.

Most of our clients have 20-200 team members

Step 2 of 4

What's the average annual salary?

Your best estimate works. Include base salary only — we'll factor in fully-loaded cost automatically (benefits, taxes, overhead add ~30%).

U.S. average for office workers: $65,000 - $95,000

Step 3 of 4

What industry are you in?

This helps us calibrate the cognitive demand multiplier. Higher-stakes decisions = higher cost of cognitive depletion.

Step 4 of 4

How bad is the afternoon crash?

Think about your team between 2-4 PM. How much capacity do you estimate they're losing compared to their morning peak?

Estimated afternoon capacity loss

30%

10% — Mild 30% — Average 50% — Severe

Research shows 75% of professionals are chronically dehydrated by 2 PM, which reduces working memory by up to 25%.