+23%
Profitability
Highly engaged organisations show +23% higher profitability vs those dominated by disengagement.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2023
Client Use Case · Hybrid AI Solution
One Agency. One AI Agent. €60,000 Avoided.
How Maxime, an expert organisational coach, resolved in hours what a manager couldn’t unlock in a month — by deploying a custom AI coaching agent for a high-potential employee in silent crisis.
- 35K–60K€
- Costs avoided · do-nothing scenario
- 4x–8x
- Hybrid solution ROI
- €7,500
- Turnkey solution cost
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One blocked employee. A whole team feeling it.
THE CONTEXT
A high-potential employee goes through a personal event that challenges his entire value system. For 4 weeks, he circles in indecision — including whether to leave the company. His manager notices: less present, less engaged. Tension spreads to two direct colleagues. Team deliverables suffer. A silent individual crisis, slowly becoming a collective issue.
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Three scenarios. Three orders of magnitude.
WHAT IT COST — AND WHAT IT COULD HAVE COST
Real cost · 4 weeks
~€4,000 in lost production
7 days of measurable impact: 4 days of lost production + error rework, 3 days of degraded productivity. At €580/day (billable day rate), monthly impact reached ~€4,000 — roughly one third of the employee’s productive capacity. Above McKinsey’s 20–25% disengagement benchmark, consistent with an acute episode.
Source: McKinsey Global Institute, 2022
If prolonged · 12 months
€10,000–15,000/year per disengaged employee
IBET (Mozart Consulting) puts the annual cost of one disengaged employee at €14,310 — covering absenteeism, lost productivity, presenteeism, and climate degradation. McKinsey converges: 20–25% of payroll, or €9,000–11,000 on this profile. And contagion wasn’t hypothetical: two direct colleagues already affected.
Source: IBET — Mozart Consulting · McKinsey Global Institute, 2022
If he had left · Replacement cost
€22,000–45,000 replacement cost
SHRM estimates replacement cost of a skilled employee at 50–200% of annual gross salary. On this profile, the conservative estimate gives €22,000–45,000 — excluding skills loss and ramp-up time. Combined: prolonged disengagement + departure = €35,000–60,000 over the year.
Source: SHRM — Society for Human Resource Management
Do-nothing scenario combined: prolonged disengagement + unmanaged departure = estimated total cost between €35,000 and €60,000 over the year. Against an actual incurred cost of approximately €2,000.
35–60K€
do-nothing scenario
What the AI Agent Produced
Unblocked in hours. Re-engaged beyond his original level.
The employee engages with the AI coaching agent at his own pace — up to 3 hours of reflection between a question and a response. He comes out without a firm answer, but with clarity: new doors opened, a fresh angle on his situation, out of the fog. He decides to stay and re-engage. His productivity returns to its former level — and exceeds it, because he can now project himself forward clearly. Not an answer. A recovered capacity to decide.
03
What Gallup and field data confirm
MEASURABLE GAINS
+18%
Productivity
+18% productivity in engaged teams. This employee now exceeds his pre-episode performance level.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2023
€2,000
Actual cost incurred
Of the €35,000–60,000 do-nothing scenario, only ~€2,000 was actually lost. Early intervention absorbed the bulk of the risk.
Field measurement
THE ROI FOR A SMALL BUSINESS
€4 to €8 saved for every €1 invested
Maxime’s hybrid solution — AI coaching agent + targeted human sessions — was priced at €7,500. Against a do-nothing scenario costed between €35,000 and €60,000 (prolonged disengagement + departure + replacement), the return on investment is 4x to 8x. For a 5–15 person business with a limited budget, this is the magnitude that changes everything.
35–60K€
Costs avoided
€7,500
Hybrid solution
04
What users experienced
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“I preferred having the time to work with the AI. I didn’t want to get a time rush with a coach having to close after an hour.”
“I prefer this AI coaching tool over ChatGPT — for the power of the methodology behind it.”
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The numbers, and where they come from.
REFERENCE DATA · 6 CROSS-CHECKED SOURCES
- Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2023
- +23% profitability · +18% productivity in engaged teams
- IBET — Mozart Consulting
- €14,310/year per disengaged employee
- McKinsey Global Institute, 2022
- 20–25% of payroll lost to disengagement
- SHRM
- 50–200% of annual gross salary to replace an employee
- Microsoft Work Trend Index 2023
- 31h/month of unproductive meetings per manager
- DARES / INSEE, 2023
- Reference salary Tech/Consulting: €54,000–56,000
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Maxime Bui
About the coach
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Maxime is an HEC-trained expert organisational coach working with small and mid-size teams on feedback culture, leadership, and collective performance. He builds custom AI coaching agents on magif.ai that encode his methodology — making expert coaching available to every employee, at any time.
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