What Is Capacity Drift Costing Your Team?
Translate invisible capacity drain into budget-level numbers your CFO will understand.
Based on the Zones Framework™ by Emergent Skills
You already know your team isn't operating at full capacity every hour. Nobody does. But most organizations treat that gap as a motivation problem or a management problem — when it's actually a capacity problem hiding in plain sight.
This calculator does the math most L&D budgets never account for: the aggregate cost of your team working in degraded capacity states. Not because they're disengaged — because nobody taught them what zone they're in or what to do about it.
Calculate Your Team's Zone Costs
Estimates based on team averages. Adjust the defaults to reflect your reality.
👥 Team & Compensation
Fully loaded cost is even better — add ~30% for benefits/overhead.
⏱️ Team Zone Distribution (avg per person)
Think about a typical day across your team. How much time is spent focused vs. running on fumes?
🟢 Green hours/day (avg)
📉 Effective Output Loss by Zone
Each zone produces less usable work per hour. These defaults are research-informed — adjust for your team's context.
15–25% typical for knowledge work
25–45%. Higher where mistakes are expensive
50–75%. Very little executive function online
💡 What Would Capacity Training Cost?
Compare the cost of doing nothing against the cost of equipping your team with capacity skills.
Emergent Skills: $34.95/mo individual. Enterprise pricing available.
What % of lost time could be recovered with training? Even 15–20% is conservative.
📊 Team Results
If This Number Makes You Uncomfortable, It Should.
Most organizations absorb capacity drain as invisible overhead — it's baked into "normal" attrition, rework cycles, and meetings-about-meetings. The number above isn't a worst case. It's what's happening right now, every day, compounding across your team.
Traditional wellness programs address this with meditation apps and EAP referrals — tools that only work when people are already functioning well. Capacity training works differently: it meets people in 🟡Yellow and 🔴Red where the actual cost is generated, and gives them skills that function in those states.
Ready to Recover Your Team's Lost Capacity?
The calculator shows the cost. Emergent Skills gives your team the tools to change it.
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