Wasted Time Online
Cost Savings Calculator

Use this worksheet to determine how much money
your company could save by reducing the amount of time wasted
on non-business related Internet activity.

Number of Employees Accessing the Internet:

#

(1)

Number of hours spent online each day, per employee:

#

hrs

(2)

Average cost (salary, benefits) per employee, per hour:

$

/hr

(3)

Estimated % of time spent online that isn't business related:
(Studies have shown 30 to 40 percent of employee
Internet activity is non-business related.)

%

(4)

By monitoring your employees' online activity,
you should be able to cut that % of time wasted value in half.

Calculate the new % of time spent online that isn't business related:
(Line 4) x .5

%

(5)

Calculate the difference from before & after you began monitoring:
(Line 4) - (Line 5) = % time savings

%

(6)

Calculate the Daily Savings from reducing non-business related
Internet activity:
(Line 1) x (Line 2) x (Line 3) x (Line 6)

$

(7)

Calculate the number of work-days in a year:
(e.g. 5 days x 48 weeks = 240 days)

days 

(8)

Calculate the Annual Savings:
(Line 7) x (Line 8)

$