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The receipt: 117 emails a day, at up to 60 seconds each for email and 30 seconds each for chat. Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index and its own Viva Insights accounting. Change nothing and this is the average worker; your day may run higher or lower.
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Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index puts the average worker at 117 emails a day, most skimmed in under a minute, and 153 Teams messages a weekday. We count each email at up to 60 seconds and each chat at 30 seconds, the figure Microsoft's own Viva Insights uses. Email is always in; Teams and Slack are in when you tick them. That is the hours a day. Times five is the week.
Published data exists for Teams, not Slack. The two do the same job for the same people, so we use the Teams figure to estimate Slack. The receipt says so whenever Slack is ticked. If you put in what an hour of your time is worth, the hours become dollars a month over 21.7 working days. Every published number is editable under "Not you? Change them."
It does not say how much time you would get back with any tool, ours included. There is no receipt for that yet, so the page does not say it. It shows what the problem costs, from numbers you can see and change.
The published averages are for all information workers, not founders or executives in particular. Nothing published says your role runs higher, so the page does not say that either. Change the fields to yours; the math follows.
Sources: Microsoft Work Trend Index, June 2025 special report; Microsoft Viva Insights personal-insights accounting.
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