What is Emotional Downtime Costing You?

For Executives.

Your Emotional Downtime Index™ (EDI) computes the work hours you lose each year from unresolved emotions, and what those hours cost you. Enter a few numbers to calculate yours.

Emotional Downtime Estimate

Not sure what to enter? Try an example, then change the numbers:

Your annual compensation ($)

Include salary and benefits if you want a fully loaded estimate. Or enter an hourly cost under Advanced assumptions.

Frequency: emotional disruption episodes per week

An episode can be anxiety, disappointment, discomfort, envy, anger, frustration, or another unresolved emotion.

Duration: minutes of reduced functioning per episode

How long before you are back to optimal functioning? Include the time spent ruminating, recovering, avoiding, disengaging, or otherwise operating below capacity.

Productivity loss during that time

How strongly does it affect your functioning? This is the share of normal productivity lost, not the share remaining.

Advanced assumptions

Hourly cost, if you know it ($)

Optional. Replaces compensation ÷ paid hours. For example, a fully loaded rate of $125 an hour.

Working weeks per year

Paid hours per year

Used to turn annual compensation into an hourly cost.

Estimated Annual Cost

Your estimated annual cost will appear here

Enter your numbers on the left, or choose an example. Your estimate is calculated from what you enter.

The estimate excludes secondary costs such as impaired decisions, conflict, delayed execution, and missed opportunities.

This is an estimating framework built on the assumptions you enter. It is not a measurement of your psychological condition or a claim about causation.

Introducing the Emotional Mastery App

The Emotional Mastery App gives you a step-by-step roadmap to resolve difficult emotions in real time. The app is built on Optimal Thinking and our Accept, Understand, Optimize formula. When you are anxious, disappointed, frustrated, doubting yourself or experiencing another common disturbing emotion, you choose the feeling, answer a short set of questions, and determine your next best move. Difficult emotions are optimized and do not result in prolonged downtime.

Some Emotions in Our Emotional Mastery App

The 20 roadmaps in the Emotional Mastery App, from Anger and Anxiety to Loneliness and Forgiveness

There is nothing to install. The app runs in any web browser or on your phone’s home screen. Your answers are private and stored on your own device. Five roadmaps are free. You can unlock all 20 for one year of access: $9.95 launch fee (regular annual fee $19.95), available until December 31, 2026. We add new roadmaps from time to time at no extra cost during your year.

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What if You Resolved Some Emotional Downtime?

Complete the calculator above to see what resolving emotional downtime would be worth.

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Research Behind Your Estimate

Published studies show that psychological distress, depression and work stress carry a measurable productivity cost, largely through people being at work but not at full capacity. None of them measures “emotional downtime” itself. This calculator applies the same productivity logic to your own numbers.

Psychological distress, U.S. workers. Estimated at $90.1 to $118.2 billion in absenteeism and presenteeism costs in 2021. Asfaw, Alterman & Pana-Cryan, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2026. Read the study
Work stress, Swiss employees. Productivity losses attributable to work stress were estimated at about CHF 195 per person per month, roughly 3.2% of average monthly earnings. Brunner, Igic, Keller & Wieser, European Journal of Health Economics, 2019. Read the study
Depression, eight countries. Presenteeism costs tended to be 5 to 10 times higher than absenteeism costs. Evans-Lacko & Knapp, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2016. Read the study

The Emotional Mastery App is an educational resource. It is not a substitute for medical, psychological or mental-health advice, diagnosis or treatment, or professional help.

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