What a handover costs

When someone leaves and their knowledge isn't passed on properly, costs arise in four places. Enter your numbers. Everything is calculated in your browser; nothing is stored or sent.

The defaults are assumptions to adjust, not study figures. The result is an estimate, not a promise.

Onboarding

Without a handover, the successor needs longer to work independently, and delivers less in the meantime.

Monthly salary of the role (gross, incl. on-costs)€Months a good handover savesProductivity gap during that time (%)%

Errors

Missed deadlines, missed early-payment discounts, duplicate payments, undetected fraud.

Errors avoided per yearAverage cost per error€

Colleagues' time

Colleagues and the team lead step in and answer questions.

Hours per weekWeeksHourly rate€

Handovers per year

How many critical handovers do you have per year? Rule of thumb: turnover times the number of key roles.

Critical handovers per year

Not included: the outage when someone leaves suddenly and nobody knows the process. There is no good formula for that, only prevention.

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