PRC Workforce is priced like the EAP, the benefits platform, and the broker pipeline. One number per employee per year. No seat caps. No rationing decisions. Anyone in your workforce can enrol privately at any time.
Enterprise (1,000+ employees): bespoke pricing from £24/employee/year, minimum annual fee £24,000. Multi-site, international, or custom reporting cadence. Contact Jon to discuss.
The numbers in full
From April 2026, the financial case stops being about lost output and starts being about cash. The Employment Rights Act 2025 removes the three waiting days: Statutory Sick Pay is now payable from day one of every absence, short or long, at £123.25 a week. It lands on payroll whether the absence is one day or the full 28-week limit. There is no threshold to clear and nothing to dispute. A pattern that used to cost you invisibly now creates a direct, unavoidable payroll liability the moment it produces a single day off.
DWP puts the new cost to employers at roughly £13 per employee per year — about £3,300 across a 250-person workforce — before a single long-term case is counted. One long-term absence alone can reach more than £3,000 in SSP across the 28-week limit, before the cost of cover. Against hard numbers like these, the Standard licence at £9,750 is not a benefits-budget line. It is a cash offset: it works on the pattern before the pattern reaches payroll. DWP, Employment Rights Act 2025 Economic Analysis, January 2026
And that is before the invisible losses. The presenteeism figure below is on top of the cash liability above, not instead of it.
£10,500
Lost output · one £70k senior at 70% capacity for six months
=
£9,750
Annual licence cost · 250-employee organisation · Standard pricing £39/emp/yr
One restored senior more than covers the entire annual licence.
The average cost of replacing a professional employee is £30,614 (Oxford Economics and Unum, 2014 — the real cost today is higher). The risk of losing the person entirely is a separate calculation on top of the presenteeism figure above. Oxford Economics & Unum, “The Cost of Brain Drain,” 2014
What your EAP covers — and what it cannot
Your EAP budget is already committed, and it earns its place. For the 10%+ who will self-refer, it does exactly what it is designed to do: a confidential route to support, on demand. Nothing here argues against that spend.
The limit is structural, not financial. An EAP only reaches the people who put their hand up — and the population that will not, the senior professionals who have done the maths on a clinical record, is the same population whose absences now land on payroll from day one. Because the format cannot reach them, it cannot reduce that liability. This is not a cost problem with your EAP. It is a coverage problem: the 90% it structurally excludes is exactly the 90% carrying your new day-one SSP exposure. EAPA UK, Securing the Future of the EAP, 2024
PRC is priced per employee and delivered to every employee. There is no uptake step between the licence and the workforce, because nobody has to come forward to receive it. That is what lets it work on the liability the EAP cannot touch. Aggregate completion is reported to you at Day 90.
For a second reference point: a certified workplace first-aider course is published at £325 per person, capped at 16 people per course. At Standard pricing, the same £325 covers eight employees for a full year, site-wide, with no seat cap. MHFA England published pricing
Not ready to book a call? Read the Organisation Brief — covers the protocol, evidence base, financial case, and pricing.