Understanding Workplace Friction

Recent research* reveals that most teams lose 20-25% of their working time to preventable friction. Email overload, unclear meetings, decision delays—these small inefficiencies add up quickly.

20-25% of time lost to friction McKinsey & Smartsheet research
31 hrs wasted monthly in meetings Otter.ai 2024 study
2.6 hrs weekly searching for files IDC research

To put this in perspective:

A team of 10 people with an average cost-to-company of R50,000 each represents R500,000 in monthly capacity.

At 20% friction, that's equivalent to 2 full team members' worth of effort—roughly R100,000—going toward work that doesn't need to happen.

What could your team accomplish with that capacity back?

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*Sources:

• Process inefficiencies: McKinsey & Smartsheet, "The State of Work Innovation" (2024)

• Meeting productivity: Otter.ai, "State of Meetings Report" (2024)

• Document search time: IDC Research, "The High Cost of Not Finding Information" (2024)