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What does "just ask Sarah" cost your business?
Every time someone stops to ask where a file lives or how a task is done, two people lose their focus: the one asking and the one answering. Put in your own numbers to see the yearly cost.
How often each person asks a colleague where something is, how a task is done, or which version is current.
The asker searching and waiting, plus the colleague stopping and getting back into their own work.
Salary plus employer PRSI and pension, divided by hours worked. €30 suits many Irish office roles.
About 230 in Ireland after annual leave and public holidays.
Your yearly cost
- Hours lost each week
- 0
- Hours lost each year
- 0
- Equal to full-time staff doing nothing else
- 0
- Saving if half those questions disappear
- €0
Imagine if your team could find the answer without asking Sarah.
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How this is worked out. Questions per day × team size × minutes lost × working days gives the hours lost each year, which is multiplied by your hourly cost. A full-time person is counted as 7.5 hours a day for the same number of working days.
Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast in October 2026, cognitive neuroscientist Dr Sahar Yousef estimated that the average knowledge worker loses at least two hours a day to digital interruptions and switching between tasks. This calculator counts only one kind: people asking each other for answers that could be written down.
The figures are an estimate from your own inputs, not a measurement.