Matthew F. Stevens

ORS™ Cost Snapshot

ORS™ Cost Snapshot | Matthew F. Stevens

ORS™ Cost Snapshot · Matthew F. Stevens

Your team is losing money
every single day.
You just can’t see it yet.

Dysregulated employees don’t show up in your P&L. They show up in missed deadlines, escalating conflicts, leadership drag, and the quiet cost of people performing below their capacity — every single day.

● $550B lost annually to employee disengagement in the US alone — Gallup
● Managers spend an average of 2.1 hours per day on conflict — CPP Inc.
● Replacing one employee costs 150% of their annual salary — SHRM
● Presenteeism costs 3× more than absenteeism — American Institute of Stress
● High-pressure environments reduce cognitive output by up to 13% — UCL
● 75% of voluntary resignations cite the immediate supervisor — Gallup
● High-conflict teams have 50% higher absenteeism — CIPD
● A single toxic employee costs $12,500+ in recruiting costs alone — HBR
● Disengaged employees cost 34% of their salary in lost productivity — Gallup
● $550B lost annually to employee disengagement in the US alone — Gallup
● Managers spend an average of 2.1 hours per day on conflict — CPP Inc.
● Replacing one employee costs 150% of their annual salary — SHRM
● Presenteeism costs 3× more than absenteeism — American Institute of Stress
● High-pressure environments reduce cognitive output by up to 13% — UCL
● 75% of voluntary resignations cite the immediate supervisor — Gallup
● High-conflict teams have 50% higher absenteeism — CIPD
● A single toxic employee costs $12,500+ in recruiting costs alone — HBR
● Disengaged employees cost 34% of their salary in lost productivity — Gallup
$550B
Lost to disengagement annually
Gallup State of the Global Workplace
2.1 hrs
Manager time lost to conflict daily
CPP Inc. Workplace Conflict Report
150%
Of salary to replace one employee
SHRM Human Capital Benchmarking

What the research actually shows

3×
Presenteeism — showing up but underperforming — costs three times more than absenteeism. It’s invisible on a balance sheet but it’s on yours.
American Institute of Stress
13%
Reduction in cognitive function in high-pressure environments. Your sharpest people are not operating at full capacity under stress.
University College London
75%
Of employees who quit voluntarily cite their immediate supervisor. This is not a hiring problem. It is a regulation problem.
Gallup
50%
Higher absenteeism in high-conflict teams. Every unresolved escalation compounds into the next one — and the next.
CIPD

The ORS™ Cost Snapshot

6 questions. 3 minutes. A number that will change how you see your team.

Question 1 of 6

How many people are on your team?

Include direct reports, indirect reports, or the full department you’re responsible for.

25
5Team size200+

Question 2 of 6

What is the average annual salary across your team?

A rough figure is fine. Base salary only — benefits and overhead add 30–40% on top.

$

Question 3 of 6

How many hours per week is your team losing to dysregulation?

Think about your last week. Someone escalated in a meeting. A conversation took twice as long as it should have. A decision got delayed because the room wasn’t regulated. Someone came in off-baseline and the whole team felt it. A manager spent an hour managing a situation that shouldn’t have existed.

That’s dysregulation — and most leaders have never connected those moments to a dollar figure. CPP Inc. found that managers alone average 2.1 hours per day on conflict. Your team is paying that cost too.

Now estimate: how many hours per week, across your team, do moments like these actually consume?

4 hrs
1 hrPer week per person20+ hrs

Question 4 of 6

How would you describe turnover on your team over the last 12 months?

SHRM data shows replacing a mid-level employee costs 150% of their annual salary — and that’s before counting the 6–12 months it takes a replacement to reach full output.

Question 5 of 6

What percentage of your leadership time goes to managing escalation rather than driving strategy?

CPP Inc. found managers average 2.1 hours per day on conflict. Most leaders underestimate their own number by at least half — because escalation management becomes background noise.

30%
5%Leadership time on escalation80%

Question 6 of 6

How many decisions per week are being made by people operating below their baseline?

This is the number almost no one tracks — but every leader knows it’s real. A team member who came in after a rough night. A supervisor who just handled an escalation and hasn’t recovered. A manager running on three weeks of compounded pressure.

UCL research shows high-pressure environments reduce cognitive function by up to 13%. That’s not a bad day. That’s a structural cost — built into every decision made while someone’s nervous system is still in recovery.

Estimate how many significant decisions per week involve at least one person operating below their regulated baseline.

10
1Decisions per week below baseline50+

Your ORS™ Cost Snapshot

Here’s what dysregulation is costing your team

$0

Estimated annual cost of dysregulation

Where the money is going

Productivity Loss

$0

Hours lost to conflict, recovery, and operating below baseline — every week, compounding across your entire team.

Turnover Cost

$0

Recruiting, onboarding, and the 6–12 months for a replacement to reach full output — at 150% of salary per person.

Decision & Leadership Drag

$0

Strategic value destroyed when leadership time goes to managing instability, and decisions get made below baseline.

What this means for your organization

The number is real. The question is what you do with it.

Analyzing your results…

This is what ORS™
was built to solve.

ORS™ is an audio-based micro conditioning system that targets one operational metric at a time — no workshops, no downtime, no disruption to the floor. The pilot runs 60 days. If the numbers move, you build a case for full deployment. If they don’t, you part ways honestly.

Recommended next step

Apply for the ORS™ 60-Day Pilot

Custom-scoped. No commitment required. Matthew reviews every application personally and responds within 2 business days.

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Not ready yet?

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A one-page breakdown of how ORS works, what changes in 30 days, and whether it’s the right fit for your environment.

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