BackNov 18, 2025
Putting a Price on Busywork
Repetitive tasks feel cheap because they never appear as an invoice. A little arithmetic changes that.
Count the real hours
Ask the team to log repetitive tasks for one normal week. Most estimates turn out to be far too low.
Multiply honestly
Use loaded salary costs and include time spent fixing mistakes, then annualize the total.
Compare with the fix
Set that figure beside the cost of a system and you have a business case instead of a hunch.