The customer:
The Compasso association supports employers in helping employees return to work quickly and sustainably after health problems. As an information and networking platform, Compasso is a non-profit organization that provides all the relevant tools, contacts, and solutions free of charge to help maintain employment and professionally manage health-related absences.
Supported by a small but highly motivated team, Compasso plays a crucial role in informing employers about how they can support their employees with health problems in terms of professional reintegration, job retention and absence management.
At the heart of this is the newly developed digital reWork profile with a certificate of capacity to work: it facilitates structured dialogue between employers, employees, and doctors, provides clarity about resources, and enables a gradual, realistic return to work.
The advantage: fewer days of absence, guaranteed professional competence, lower costs – and a clear signal that the employees affected are taken seriously and supported.
The challenge: rising costs due to long-term absences and possible job loss
Rising healthcare costs due to long-term absences place a burden on employers and insurers: companies bear the cost of continued salary payments and productivity losses, while insurers bear high daily allowance costs. This often results in job losses – even though this could be avoided.
Compasso's reWork profile provides a structured basis for discussion for successful return-to-work planning and helps to reduce claims. The focus is not on limitations, but on existing resources – and thus on promoting partial work capacity.
The technical solution: intuitive and easy-to-understand user guidance
In addition to the tool's user journey, the resulting form was also significantly revised. The focus was on the dynamically generated form consisting of the job or activity description and the certificate of fitness for work.
The clearly structured activity modules with the option of customization, through clarifications and the integration of images, create a relevant job description. These precise descriptions are then used by doctors and insurance companies to optimally assess the individual needs and possibilities for reintegration.
A lot has also changed from a technical perspective. The tailor-made web app, which was created from scratch with NextJS, Sanity CMS, MongoDB, and Auth0, also has the ability to create dynamic, customized PDFs. Registration for the tool is optional to ensure maximum accessibility and user-friendliness. A particular highlight is the integration of the HIN email service for the secure and encrypted transmission of documents – after all, this is confidential personal data. Users who do not have the option of encrypted transmission benefit from this service. Alternatively, the document can also be downloaded directly.
Conclusion: A dialogue tool with a lasting impact – both economically and socially.
The redesign of the tool has brought groundbreaking advantages for Compasso and its users:
- Health and economic benefits: Structured dialogue about remaining resources – supplemented by a medical assessment of partial work capacity – enables employees to return to work gradually while creating transparency and cost control for employers and insurers.
- Easier return to work for affected employees:
The reWork profile shows employees that they are valued. A central health consultation addresses their situation and supports a safe, resource-oriented return to work.
- The savings calculator – visualizes the savings potential for employers:
The savings calculator clearly shows that assessing potential partial work capacity and using the reWork tool at an early stage is worthwhile – a gradual return to work significantly reduces costs.
- Future-oriented development: The tool is technologically designed in such a way that it can be continuously scaled and further developed. One idea for further development, for example, is the integration of Docusign. This would mean that the PDF generated by the tool would no longer have to be downloaded or sent as an email attachment. External processes could thus be streamlined, saving a lot of time and reducing sources of error.
In conclusion, we can look back on this project with pride. We were able to support Compasso in fulfilling its mission in an even more targeted manner. The new tool is not only a technical improvement, but also a decisive step forward, because promoting early professional reintegration through partial work capacity reduces long-term absences and costs and provides structured support to the employees affected in their return to work.
