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What are interruptions costing you?

Every "got a sec?" pulls you off something. Put in your own numbers and see what it adds up to over a month and a year.

Your numbers
A rough number is fine. Think about what you'd bill or what you pay yourself.
$
Questions, "where's that file," "can you look at this," anything that pulls you away.
Just the time spent dealing with it.
min
Most people undercount this one. Adjust it to what feels honest for you.
min
What it adds up to
$2,167a month
Per year$25,000
Hours lost per week2.5
Full workdays lost per year16

3 a day × (5 min + 5 min to refocus) × 5 days = 2.5 hours a week

If the same questions keep coming up, that's usually the part worth fixing first.

This is an estimate from your own guesses. Want to know your actual number?

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Who's behind this

I'm Michael Williams, and I run Threadline. I've been obsessed with technology for as long as I can remember, and these days most of my time goes to the unglamorous side of it, the systems a small team runs on and the questions that end up on whoever's desk is "good with computers."

What I've noticed is that a lot of what lands on the owner's desk isn't really a tech problem. It's there because the answer isn't written down anywhere, and that's usually a fixable thing once you can see how often it's happening. So I measure the interruptions before anyone buys software.