The economics of loneliness, priced honestly.
We publish the factors we model from, with their primary sources. We do not publish vendor-estimated savings numbers. Your CFO can rebuild our math; your analytics team can stress-test our assumptions.
What we model from, and where each number comes from.
Each factor below is a published finding from a primary source. No adjustments. No weighted vendor blends.
- 01Annual turnover cost (per exit)
- 0.5x to 2x annual salary
- SHRM, 2023
- 02Lost productivity from disengagement
- $322B per year (US)
- Gallup, 2023
- 03Mortality risk of social isolation
- Equivalent to 15 cigarettes/day
- Holt-Lunstad et al., 2010
- 04Absenteeism linked to loneliness
- +5.7 additional days/year
- Cigna Loneliness Index, 2020
- 05Retention lift from belonging
- +56% less likely to leave
- BetterUp Member Study, 2022
Factors are published findings. Sources are listed inline so your analytics team can pull the primary paper and verify the range we use. When a source updates, we update.
Three honest steps, not a savings calculator.
Our calculator is really a methodology. Inputs you bring, math we publish, outputs your finance team can defend.
Inputs you control
- Headcount and participating cohort size
- Baseline belonging and connection signals
- Current turnover, absenteeism, and EAP utilization
- Deployment window (typically 6, 12, 24 months)
Model we publish
- Published ROI factors, with primary sources
- Regression on correlated outcomes, not causal claims
- Confidence intervals on every output, not point estimates
- Methodology memo attached to every model run
Outputs we report
- Annualized savings range (low / base / high)
- Attribution boundary: what we can and cannot claim
- Sensitivity table across headcount, cohort, baseline
- Summary page your finance team can countersign
A model session, rendered flat.
This is not a live calculator. It is a flat display of what the inputs and outputs look like when we sit with your finance team. The real session produces a memo, not a page.
Illustrative. Real sessions ship a PDF memo with assumptions, sensitivity table, and methodology footnotes. Confidence ranges are what count, not point estimates.
What we won't model for you.
Four refusals that keep this model honest. If a procurement team asks for any of them, we decline and explain why.
- 01
We will not invent a causal claim where the data supports only a correlation.
- 02
We will not present vendor-commissioned ROI numbers as independent evidence.
- 03
We will not inflate the sample by counting non-participants as benefiting.
- 04
We will not bury assumptions in a footnote. They lead every output.
Elitesgen, Inc. is wholly owned by Elites Generation Foundation, a 501(c)(3) whose charter legally forbids behavioral advertising and the sale of individual user data.
We will run a model with your numbers. Not for you. With you.
Bring your headcount, baseline, and target cohort. We will sit with your finance team, rebuild the math on a shared screen, and send the workings in a document you can store.