About our Workplace ROI and Breakeven Calculators

U.S. General Accountability Office calls GWA’s Hybrid Work Savings Calculator “comprehensive and thoroughly researched.”

When the U.S. General Accountability Office was charged by Congress to investigate tools that could be used to quantify the impact of distributed work in government, they asked to peek behind the curtains on our calculator. Ours was the only tool referenced in the GAO’s report to Congress. It stated our Mobile Work Savings Calculator™ was “comprehensive and based on solid research.”

Some of our ROI and Breakeven Workplace Calculators and Models

Using the same level of rigorous research the U.S. GAO referred to, we have created calculators to estimate the ROI or breakeven for investments in employee wellness and well-being, what whole cities, states

All of our calculators are informed by a proprietary database that includes over 7,000 case studies, research papers, government reports, and news items on workplace strategies that impact human and organizational agility and performance.

Using that research and data from dozens of government, academic, and private-sector sources, we developed a number of models to quantify how various workplace changes can impact organizational, human, and environmental performance including:

Models of the potential employer, employee, and environmental impact of hybrid and remote work on individual companies, whole cities, states, and countries
Impact of employee wellness & well-being on turnover, disability costs, employer costs, absenteeism, presenteeism, and more
ROI and breakeven of investments employee engagement
ROI and breakeven of investments in ergonomics
ROI and breakeven on investments in SAAS workplace experience tools
ROI and breakeven on investments in dual monitors for employees
Employee savings due to remote and hybrid work

Our calculators have been used by hundreds of company and community leaders throughout the U.S. and Canada and cited in a wide variety of publications.

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The Pro versions of our calculators provide for over a hundred customized assumptions and involve over 600 calculations. They allow us to create CFO-quality models for our clients. The only difference between the Pro and Lite versions of the calculators is that the latter limits the number customizable assumptions. While the pro versions are only available to clients and partners of Global Workplace Analytics, we make the following Lite versions of the following calculators available for free:

Hybrid/Remote Workplace Savings Calculator Lite™

Employee Remote Work Savings Calculator™

Contact Us: If you would like a quote on a custom calculator or want to learn more about becoming a client, please email Kate@GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com.

Reporters On Assignment: If you are a reporter for a large regional publication and would like us to calculate the potential people, planet, and profit impact of distributed work for your city, state, or region please send us an email or call us at 760-703-0377 (Pacific time). Please let us know what organization you represent and your deadline.

FAQ: Answers to questions we typically get regarding the assumptions behind our Mobile/Remote/Hybrid Workplace Savings Calculators:

Our standard remote work model assumes half-time remote work – which is roughly the national average for those who work remotely on a regular basis. It seems to represent the ‘sweet spot’ that mitigates the employer and employee concerns about issues such as company culture and employee loneliness yet still offers substantial employee, employer, and environmental benefits.
Regarding who can work remotely, we assume 45% of the population holds jobs that are compatible. That’s based on an update we did of a very thorough study conducted by Mathews & Williams, a couple of PhDs, who went through the Bureau of Labor (BLS) Statistics data and evaluated the jobs that met their criteria for remote work compatibility. Only four categories of jobs made the cut: professional, technical support, administrative support, and a fraction of sales jobs. Management-level jobs, even within those categories, were not considered eligible. Unfortunately, that study was done more than 5 years ago – ancient in terms of the current state of technology, so we revised Matthews & Williams’s assumptions to reflect the existing rate of participation among those categories that they excluded.
Recognizing that you can’t take the kids to school on just the days you head to the office, we relied on a synthesis of a number of respected studies by groups including the Reason Foundation, the Air Quality Board, and private company surveys to estimate how much driving is reduced on remote workdays. We used BLS data to estimate how much extra utility use might cost while working at home.
Not everyone wants to, can, or should work remotely. Our estimate for those who want to is based on a synthesis of studies by respected researchers.

About our Workplace ROI and Breakeven Calculators

U.S. General Accountability Office calls GWA’s Hybrid Work Savings Calculator “comprehensive and thoroughly researched.”

Some of our ROI and Breakeven Workplace Calculators and Models

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