Talent quietly slips out the back door. Absence is knocking on the door ever harder.
Dutch organizations are currently losing around 30 billion in sick leave costs. Not because of bad products or disappointing markets, but because of something much quieter: talent that leaves and employees who fall ill. The core of this problem? An organizational culture that no one really has a clear picture of. With JobAligner's Culture Scan, you finally map out that culture.
Sick leave was historically high in 2025. And talent you worked hard to attract is sometimes gone again within a year. And the real costs? You won't find them on a single line of the balance sheet — they're hidden.
Costs when talent leaves:
Costs of sick leave:
Is the most painful realization? In most organizations it was not clear in advance who was about to fall out or leave. This realization only came afterwards, when intervention was no longer an option.
Getting insight into what's going on with your people, before they say it themselves.
Classic employee surveys give you a report full of headline figures: "engagement scores 7.2", "workplace atmosphere scores average". Nice. But what do you do with that on a Monday morning?
The real change isn't in the average. It's in the individual employee who is right now, this week, on the edge. The employee who's still functioning but heading toward burnout. The talent who already has one foot out the door. The team leader whose style unintentionally pushes people away.
What organizations need isn't a thicker report. It's preventive signals tied to a name and a face, combined with a clear picture of the culture problems hiding underneath.
By tackling this problem, your sick leave costs actually go down and talent stays on board.
JobAligner's Culture Scan. Not measuring after the fact, but predicting.
The Culture Scan is not a standard employee satisfaction survey, but an in-depth analysis that also predicts where and when talent is at risk of leaving and absence is rising. The Culture Scan is carefully built from culture themes that reveal in precise detail how the culture is really experienced. Other culture problems also become visible, including concrete solutions to address them. This lets you intervene before the damage is done.
Where other employee satisfaction surveys and culture studies stop at organization-wide figures, the Culture Scan goes a step further. The same questions also reveal, at the individual level:
Not abstract percentages, but crystal-clear employee experience you can act on tomorrow. You know exactly who to talk to and about what.
The Culture Scan is for organizations that are done treating symptoms.
Organizations that no longer want to accept that absence and turnover "just come with the territory". That understand that every employee you manage to retain and every sick leave you prevent pays for itself ten, sometimes a hundred times over.
Yes, the Culture Scan consists of many questions. And that's exactly the point. Because superficial insights produce superficial results, and no organization benefits from that.
The Culture Scan is an important tool to help you meet your obligations under the Dutch Working Conditions Act and to identify and manage psychosocial workload (PSA) risks in good time. Although a culture scan is not explicitly legally required, the Working Conditions Act does require employers to ensure a safe and healthy working environment and to map and address PSA risks - such as work pressure, stress and undesirable behavior - (among other things via the Risk Inventory & Evaluation).
By structurally measuring PSA through a Culture Scan, you gain insight into factors that can lead to absence and dropout, such as work stress and an unsafe work culture. Topics that don't always come up in a conversation with an employee. This makes it possible to take preventive measures and thereby limit sick leave costs, productivity loss and legal risks.
In addition, a Culture Scan contributes to good employership and sustainable employability: it strengthens engagement, improves organizational culture and helps attract and retain employees.
In short: a Culture Scan is a practical and effective tool to meet your occupational health duty of care, manage PSA risks, and at the same time improve the performance and continuity of the organization.
For a fraction of what one departing employee or one long-term sick leave costs you, JobAligner conducts a complete culture study. Temporarily starting from just €900. The results are crystal clear, available in real time via a modern online dashboard, and directly translatable into concrete action at the organization, team and employee level.
