Workplace Impact Calculator

Calculate what menstrual health costs your organisation.

A real, measurable cost that rarely shows up in your HR data. Enter two numbers and the tool walks through the maths step by step, every figure sourced, ending with one way employers are choosing to respond.

Start with two numbers

Everything below applies published assumptions, shown step by step. Edit the numbers and the maths updates.

1

About half of your team menstruates.

520 employees

We use 52%, in line with women's share of Hong Kong's workforce.4

2

They lose working time to symptoms they push through.

4,628 days / year

A mean 8.9 days a year of lost productivity (presenteeism). Schoep et al., BMJ Open, 2019.1

About 7 in 10 — roughly 369 people — say symptoms affect their work. Only 1 in 3 have ever told their employer.2

3

Here is what that lost time costs you each year.

HK$6,664,320 / year

Salary is your figure; based on 250 working days a year.

This counts only productivity lost to working through symptoms. It excludes absenteeism and turnover, so the real figure is likely higher, not lower. And most of it stays hidden: as step 2 showed, only 1 in 3 affected employees ever raise it.

4

So what can lower that number?

Good Period Verified is a done-for-you workplace menstrual-health program.

It turns menstrual health from something people quietly absorb into something your workplace supports openly and can report, run end to end without adding to your team's workload.4

Here is what your workplace actually gets:

  • Products in every washroom. Price-matched to your current supplier, so the basics cost you nothing extra, and there for anyone who needs them without having to ask.
  • A fully managed program. Good Period brings the workshops and speakers, the toolkits, the health calendar, and the onboarding. Your People team gets the credit, not the work.
  • Evidence for your ESG and diversity reporting. An auditable year-end impact report you can drop straight into your annual disclosures.
  • The Verified badge. For job listings, recruitment, and your annual report.
  • Community impact built in. Every purchase funds period care for low-income communities in Hong Kong, where around 1 in 10 women face period poverty.3

This is also how you start bringing that number down. When symptoms are understood, easier to raise, and supported without stigma, fewer working days are lost to them.

Already trusted in Hong Kong

Good Period already supplies period care to 150+ workplaces across Hong Kong, including:

The first 25 Good Period Verified workplaces are being named in 2026. The companies that move first are the ones recognised for leading.

A note from Olivia, founder of Good Period

If this is useful, I'm glad. If you'd like to walk through what these numbers look like for your own organisation — and what a Verified workplace would involve — I'd welcome the conversation.

Discuss your numbers with Olivia

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