How much time do employees spend on training? The ATD benchmark is 40 hours per employee per year — roughly one hour a week — and it has fallen for two straight years. Here's the real data and the barrier behind the decline.
SaaS spend per employee is the budget line that keeps founders and finance leads awake. The 2026 benchmarks disagree — here is the number to trust, by industry and size.
Ask how much time employees spend on Microsoft Teams and you get a dozen answers and not one number. The real benchmark lives across three different clocks — here is how to read them.
How much time do teams spend on coordination? Managers say 21% of the week. When the same managers itemize it, the answer is 41%. The real numbers behind the coordination tax.
59%, 79%, or nearly 3 in 4? The micromanagement numbers disagree because they measure different things. Here is what each clock really says about your team.
How long does it take to onboard a new client? Between 4.8 and 23.7 days, depending on firm tier — and the spread is almost entirely about process design, not client complexity.
Work spends most of its approval life parked in a queue that never shows up on a status report. The statistics on how long approvals really wait — from 15-minute signatures to 5.8-day executive stages — reconciled.
How often should you have one-on-one meetings? Monthly is the research floor, weekly is where the engagement effect lives — and manager time decides which one you get.
DORA says 21%, Stripe says 42%, and one telco measured 80%. The spread between the unplanned-work benchmarks is the real story — and it's how you find your team's number.
Type what percentage of employees are burned out and you get 44%, 57%, or 76% depending on the survey. The verified numbers, by definition, and what actually predicts your team.
How much time do employees spend on administrative tasks? Across roles it's 10–36% of the week. The real benchmarks by role—and how to cut the admin tax.
Knowledge workers are interrupted every two minutes during core hours — 275 times a day for the heaviest pinged. Here's the real benchmark and what one interruption actually costs.