✦ First standardised methodology
HSflow™ · Human Sustainability
Prevention is not
a cost factor.
Blindness is.
Burnout, turnover, inefficiency — most organisations know the costs, but not the cause. HSflow makes the cause visible in under 10 minutes. Instead of historical data, what emerges is the capacity to act.
HSflow is a web-based measurement system that makes the root causes of burnout, turnover and inefficiency across the entire workforce visible — auditable, anonymous, in 24 languages.
Turning a blind eye is costly. Mismanagement is embarrassing.
No one can afford either any more.
HSflow makes the root causes of human capital costs visible.
No one can afford either any more.
HSflow makes the root causes of human capital costs visible.
Dashboard
Payroll KPI
Reporting Hub
87%
Stability Index
high
PRL · Risk
94%
ESRS S1
Stability trend — 12 months
Assessment
↔ Swipe · 24 Languages
Survey
⏱ Real-time · Anonymous
Legal basis
CSRD / ESRS S1
Mandatory audit requirement from 2026 · Psychosocial risks & human sustainability metrics
Crisis early warning system
StaRUG § 1
Mandatory since 2021 · All incorporated companies · Implementation left open
Applies to
Companies in scope
> 1.000 MA · > 450 Mio. € Umsatz
The solution
HSflow™
The first standardised instrument that fulfils ESRS S1 obligations in an auditable manner — and closes the gap in StaRUG § 1 for psychosocial risks that the law leaves open. Directly covers: S1-14 · S1-9 · S1-5 · S1-3
HSflow™ · The System
A group measurement tool.
Everything included.
HSflow is the instrument for the group measurement of the entire workforce — from the boardroom to the shop floor. No software installation, no IT ticket. Simply get started.
Runs in the browser · No installation · Plug & Play
Swipe Assessment
Group measurement · 24 languages · < 10 min
↓ Details
100%
of the workforce reachable — from the boardroom to the shop floor.
24
languages. Results immediately comparable — no translation overhead.
<10′
Less than 10 minutes — results appear instantly on the dashboard.
Payroll Module
FTE · Costs · Sick leave · Turnover · Export CSV/PDF · DE/EN/FR
↓ Details
Period & Workforce
Period type
Month · Quarter · Year
Full-time equivalents (FTE)
e.g. 1.0 = full-time
Number of employees
Headcount
Costs & Sickness
Gross payroll
EUR
Total sick days
∑
Staff movement
Hires / Leavers
Joiners & leavers
Overtime
optional
Multilingual (DE/EN/FR) · Export as CSV & PDF · Monthly, quarterly or annually — data flows directly into the HSflow interpretation.
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Real-time Dashboard
Live results · Company & team level · Auditable · ESRS S1
↓ The 5 KPIs
HSS
Human Stability Score
Early warning system for sickness rates
TCI
Transformation Capability
Capacity for change within the system
PRL
Psychosocial Risk Level
Burnout warning signal · high = take action
MES
Measure Effect Score
Effectiveness of interventions
HIS
Human Impact Score
Overall impact · Activity vs. effect
ColorFlow Balance
Fine-grained diagnosis of the four system competencies — shows precisely where the imbalance lies. Simply put: which strength is currently missing or over-represented in the team.
Summary
Human Stability
at risk — significantly weakened, targeted measures are required
Psychosocial Risk
critical — high strain, urgent action required
The dashboard explains itself — in German, English and French. No consultant needed to interpret the numbers.
Documentation & Onboarding
Comprehensive manual, guided onboarding and all documentation included. Ready to go immediately.
HRflow™ Add-on
Optional: integrate HRflow directly into the dashboard for individual measurement at management level. No system change.
HSflow™ · Early Warning System
While others still
Symptome behandeln —
arbeiten Sie bereits
deal with the facts.
Conventional approaches kick in once the problem is already visible. HSflow identifies the imbalance two steps earlier — before they become a symptom wird.
Conventional approach
?
Root cause invisible
The underlying imbalance in the system remains undetected. Nobody knows what is really wrong.
?
Early detection absent
No metrics, no warning signals. The system drifts — invisibly, for weeks.
!
This is where work begins
Symptoms become visible: team paralysed, conflicts, chaos, absenteeism rising. Only now does action get taken.
€€
Damage — too late
Sickness rate up. Turnover increased. Project delayed. The damage has already been done.
flying blind
vs
With HSflow™
✓
Root cause identified
The dashboard shows immediately: where is the imbalance? Missing stability, blocked capacity for change, elevated risk level — precise and auditable.
⚑
Early detection
KPIs show warning signals before symptoms emerge — two steps earlier than conventional approaches. More room to act.
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Symptoms understood
When symptoms become visible, the root cause is already known. Targeted intervention instead of guesswork.
✓
Damage prevented
Intervention at the root prevents an imbalance from becoming a costly problem.
two steps ahead
“While others guess at the symptoms, with HSflow you see the root cause — two steps earlier.”
The decisive argument for your budget
For the first time, you see
which intervention is needed —
and whether it worked.
Every organisation invests in training, coaching and culture programmes. Until now, effectiveness was a gut feeling. HSflow makes it measurable — with the Measure Effect Score (MES) and the ColorFlow Balance: before the intervention you see exactly where the imbalance lies, and afterwards whether anything has changed.
Before the intervention
Which competency is missing?
The ColorFlow Balance shows precisely where the systemic imbalance lies — not as a hypothesis, but as an auditable metric. You know exactly where to focus.
e.g. execution competency critically low → strengthen decision-making culture, not generate more ideas
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The intervention
Targeted rather than broad
Because the root cause is known, the intervention — training, coaching, restructuring — hits exactly the right problem. No scattergun approach, no hoping for the best.
Same budget, three times the impact — because it is deployed in the right place
→
After the intervention
Did it work?
The MES (Measure Effect Score) shows in black and white: has the system state changed? For the first time, effectiveness is no longer a gut feeling — but a number. Simply put: did the money achieve anything?
Auditable, reproducible, demonstrable to auditors
This applies on both levels: for the entire workforce (CSRD/Own Workforce) and for individual managers or teams. For the first time, people development is no longer a matter of faith.
System diagnostics · How this is possible
Same symptom.
Different cause.
Different solution.
HSflow is not a survey tool — it is a system-diagnostic instrument. It identifies not what someone says, but what is structurally wrong within the system. This is why it can distinguish between completely different root causes behind identical symptoms.
Observation identical in both cases
“The team doesn’t dare to make decisions.”
Diagnosis A — what HSflow shows
Psychological safety
Critically low
Stability level (HSS)
Critically low
What the system shows
The team is suffering from genuine fear — not a lack of courage. Making a mistake feels threatening. This is a safety problem, not a competency problem.
Correct intervention
Build psychological safety — error culture, trust, leadership behaviour. Not: decision-making training.
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Diagnosis B — what HSflow shows
Control & structure drive
Extremely over-driven
Capacity for change (TCI)
Severely reduced — system rigid
What the system shows
The system has seized up in perfectionism. Decisions fail not because of fear, but because there is never enough data. This is a structural problem.
Correct intervention
Activate decisiveness — legitimise 80% solutions, strengthen execution culture. Not: yet more analysis.
❌ Without HSflow
Both receive the same “decision-making workshop” — by chance it helps A, but has no effect on B. Nobody knows why. Budget wasted, problem remains.
✓ With HSflow
System diagnosis in 48 hours reveals the root cause. Targeted intervention. And the effectiveness score (MES) then shows in black and white: it worked.
Causal chains
HSflow shows the
complete chain.
Not just the symptom — but system state → KPI warning → behaviour → business impact. Intervention at the root, not at the branch.
It is often only small nuances in the system state that determine whether an intervention truly takes effect — or fizzles out. The same training, the same manager, the same budget. But the systemic context is different. HSflow makes precisely these nuances visible.
Example · The burnout path
HSflow shows the complete chain
What is observed
“The personal risk seems too high.” Withdrawal, avoidance, passivity. The team becomes invisibly quiet.
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What the KPIs show
Psychosocial risk rises into the critical range — stability score drops markedly. Warning level active before anyone falls ill.
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System state · the root
Psychological safety is absent. Mistakes feel threatening. The system punishes openness — even if nobody does so explicitly.
↓
Correct intervention
Do not demand courage. First create the ground on which courage can grow.
Business impact without intervention
Sickness rate rises measurably. Turnover increases. Teams withdraw. +€400,000 downstream costs p.a. for 100 employees.
With targeted intervention
Stability score rises. Sickness rate falls. The MES shows in black and white: the intervention worked.
Further scenarios that HSflow identifies and breaks down
The Innovation Blockade
Endless meetings · Analysis paralysis · no decisions
+
Was man beobachtet
Endless meetings, analysis paralysis, no decisions. “We need even more data.” Lots of activity, no results.
Was die KPIs zeigen
Capacity for change drops into the critical range — the system becomes rigid. Execution capability has almost disappeared.
Systemzustand
The system has seized up in perfectionism. Structure and control predominate — decisions always need yet more reassurance.
→ Not more analysis. Strengthen decision-making culture — embrace the 80% solution.
Business impact without intervention
Interventions fizzle out. Projects slip. Competitor zieht vorbei — while the internal debate continues.
With targeted intervention
Capacity for change increases. Decision cycles shorten. The MES confirms: interventions are now landing.
The Power Spiral
Status anxiety · Silo thinking · Information withheld
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Was man beobachtet
Status anxiety, silo thinking, territorial behaviour. Information is withheld. Ego battles instead of collaboration.
Was die KPIs zeigen
Overall impact collapses — despite high activity. Psychological safety at system level critically low.
Systemzustand
Nobody feels genuinely safe — so everyone fights for status as a substitute. Not out of malice, but because the system offers no other path.
→ Don’t coach the individual. Make the system safe — then the individual will let go of status.
Business impact without intervention
Duplicated work, burned-out teams, massive inefficiency. Talent leaves the organisation. Knowledge is lost.
With targeted intervention
Collaboration improves measurably. Silos open up. Overall impact rises — visible in the HIS.
The Chaos Trap
Constant changes of direction · high activity · no results
+
Was man beobachtet
Constant changes of direction. Teams confused and demotivated. High activity, no deliverable results.
Was die KPIs zeigen
Overall impact low despite high activity. Execution capability and structural stability almost entirely absent.
Systemzustand
Zu viel Innovationsdruck, zu wenig Fokus. Ideas overtake each other — before one is finished, the next arrives.
→ Not more ideas. Build focus and structure — so that energy finally lands.
Business impact without intervention
Wasted budget. No deliverable results. Teams exhaust themselves in activity without impact.
With targeted intervention
Execution rate rises. Projects get completed. The MES shows: interventions are finally landing.
Workforce Assessment
100% of the workforce.
Including on smartphone.
In 24 languages.
As simple as Tinder.
Other systems survey managers or take samples. The HSflow Workforce Assessment reaches everyone — genuinely — without questionnaires, without IT overhead, without translation costs afterwards.
Swipe instead of filling in forms
No lengthy questionnaire. Intuitive swiping — immediately accessible even for people without office experience. Shop-floor ready from day one.
24 languages · No translation overhead
The system runs in 24 languages. Results are immediately comparable — no manual translation step required afterwards.
Runs in the browser · No installation
No app download, no IT ticket, no rollout. Opens on any smartphone. Deployable worldwide and across multiple countries.
Real-time on the dashboard
No waiting for results to be processed. As soon as someone completes the assessment, data appears live on the dashboard — aggregated, anonymous, immediately readable.
100%
of the workforce reachable — not just managers or samples
24
languages — results immediately comparable, no translation overhead
∅ 48h
from the first invitation to a complete dashboard picture
0
installations required — runs in the browser, on any device, worldwide
HSflow vs. existing approaches
Why other approaches
fall short.
| Criterion | HSflow™ | Employee Survey | Engagement Tool | No Measurement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESRS S1 compliant | ✓ S1-14 · S1-9 · S1-5 · S1-3 | ✗ Not recognised | ✗ Not recognised | ✗ |
| Auditable | ✓ Standardised | ✗ Subjective | ✗ | ✗ |
| Without self-reporting | ✓ | ✗ Self-reporting | ✗ Self-reporting | — |
| Shop floor reachable | ✓ 100% Workforce | ✗ Office bias | ✗ Office bias | ✗ |
| 24 languages · no overhead | ✓ | ✗ Translation required | ✗ | — |
| Effectiveness proof (MES) | ✓ Before/After | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Real-time dashboard | ✓ | ✗ Weeks to process | Limited | ✗ |
| No IT installation | ✓ Browser | Partial | ✗ App/Integration | — |
For Partners
The almost unfair
competitive advantage —
for a consistent
line of argument.
HSflow is ideally suited as a partner instrument for anyone who regularly looks inside organisations — and has so far lacked objective data on the human system state. Those who bring HSflow have a line of argument that no competitor can replicate.
Auditors · Tax advisers · ESG auditors
What HSflow means for your audit
Auditable human capital data
Reliable, objective metrics for ESRS S1 — directly covering: S1-14, S1-9, S1-5, S1-3. No surveys, no subjective assessments.
Reduced assurance risk
Objective metrics instead of subjective survey data. Consistent evaluation logic, methodologically constant, audit-proof and fully documentable.
Before-and-after tracking
Clear demonstrability of intervention effects. Time-based comparisons methodologically sound — reproducible with identical methodology.
Time savings in the audit
Downloadable text proposal with all key metrics — legal finalisation remains with the auditor as usual. Less manual validation.
Turnaround managers · Interims · Management consultants
Instant picture of the organisation in 48h
Situational picture from day one
In a turnaround, every week counts. HSflow delivers an objective picture of the psychosocial situation within 48 hours — without interviews, without trust-building, without distortion.
Crisis cause made visible
Not just financial metrics — but also the human stability risks that often underlie a turnaround. Burnout path, power spiral, innovation blockade: immediately identifiable.
Targeted interventions
Because the root cause is known, restructuring measures hit the right problem. No scattergun approach — and the MES shows afterwards whether it worked.
StaRUG-compliant early warning system
HSflow closes the gap that § 1 StaRUG leaves open in the crisis early warning system for psychosocial risks — auditable and fully documentable.
Partner Programme
Preferential pricing, commission and co-marketing for auditors, tax advisers, management consultants, turnaround managers and interims. Get in touch.
Add-on
Extendable with individual measurement
for your managers.
HSflow is designed as a standalone system — CSRD reporting, early detection, workforce assessment. Those who want more can integrate HRflow directly into the HSflow dashboard. No system change, no retraining. Everything in one interface.
HSflow™ standalone
CSRD/ESRS S1 Reporting · Workforce Assessment · 5 KPIs · Crisis early warning system · Auditable
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HRflow™ Integration Add-on
Integrated directly into the HSflow dashboard · HR management · Individual measurement · 6 modules · no system change
Combined
One interface. Measure, manage, report — from workforce assessment to individual interventions. Relevant training included.
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ROI · What prevention delivers
Sickness rate 8% → 5% (100 employees)
276.000 €
Turnover 20% → 10% (100 employees)
300.000 €
Efficiency gain −10%
500.000 €
Total saving p.a.
1.076.000 €
Sample calculation for 100 employees · Individual figures available on request
What blindness
actually costs.
Burnout, turnover, inefficiency — the costs do not appear in the P&L, but they end up there. The problem: without knowing the root cause, you cannot intervene in a targeted way. HSflow makes the root causes of human capital costs visible — for the first time in auditable figures.
Start enquiry →Demo & Pilot slot
See
HSflow live.
For HR directors, ESG managers and auditors who finally need auditable human sustainability data. We will show you the system in a personal demo — including a live dashboard with real data. Response within 48 hours.
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