Employee Time Waste Calculator
Add up what your team's manual, repetitive work actually costs per month
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You know your team spends time on repetitive work — but do you know how much? This calculator adds it all up: data entry, report generation, copy-pasting, manual follow-ups, and status updates. The total usually shocks people.
The Cost of Manual Work
The average knowledge worker spends 40% of their time on tasks that could be automated. For a team of 10 at £40k average salary, that's £160,000 in annual labour cost applied to low-value work.
Tasks This Calculator Covers
- Data entry — copying from email to CRM, spreadsheet to spreadsheet
- Report generation — pulling numbers, formatting, emailing weekly reports
- Status updates — manually checking project status and notifying stakeholders
- Email sorting and routing — triaging inbound, forwarding to the right person
- Invoice processing — receiving, matching, approving, posting
How to Read Your Results
The calculator gives you:
- Monthly hours wasted per task category
- Annual cost in salary of that wasted time
- Automation potential — what percentage could realistically be automated
- Priority ranking — which tasks to automate first for maximum ROI
Taking Action
Once you know your biggest time sinks, automation becomes a straightforward business case — the Automation ROI Calculator turns these hours directly into a payback figure. Book a free session and I'll walk you through which tools would eliminate your top three time wasters within 30 days.
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