The direct savings

Automatic timesheets save 30 minutes per person per week of administrative time. At $50/hour average knowledge worker cost, a 20-person team saves $500/week, or $26,000/year. That is the timesheet saving alone — before any productivity improvement from the insights the tool generates. At Deskify's pricing of $2.50/seat/month ($600/year for 20 seats), the ROI on timesheets alone is 43x.

The productivity improvement value

Teams that implement focus-score-guided changes consistently report 15-25% improvements in output from the same headcount. For a 20-person team at average knowledge worker productivity value of $100,000/year, a 20% improvement equals $400,000 in additional value. Even if the actual improvement is 5%, the $100,000 gain dwarfs the software cost.

The intangible savings

Reduced management overhead, earlier burnout detection (replacing one employee costs 50-200% of their annual salary), fewer performance disputes, and better meeting culture are all valuable but hard to quantify precisely. They are real, they accumulate, and they make the total ROI case considerably stronger than the numbers above suggest.