How much does email cost your team?

Three fields estimate what the mailbox costs your team every year, in hours and in euros.

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Everyone who reads or replies, even occasionally.

Reading, replying, triaging, searching the mailbox.

Gross salary plus employer charges, divided by hours worked. €28 is a common small-business baseline.

The result for your team

€18,900per year

That is about 84 eight-hour days spent inside the mailbox.

Hours per year
675
Per month
€1,575

Part of that time is real work: answering your customers. The waste hides in the rest: re-reading emails someone already read, wondering who replied, digging through the Sent folder.

People × hours × 45 weeks × hourly cost. How it is calculated

Part of this cost is avoidable

Trupeo plugs into the mailbox your team already shares. You see who is on each email and what is still waiting for someone, what is done leaves the list, and the team leaves itself notes beside the email.

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In Trupeo

How this number is calculated

People × hours per week × 45 weeks × hourly cost

We count 45 working weeks per year to account for vacations and public holidays. It is a deliberately simple estimate: it counts neither the cost of interruptions nor the cost of missed emails.

Benchmarks to situate your team

  • 169emails handled per week by an employee on average, and 384 by an executive (OICN reference study, about 30,000 employees)
  • 57%of working time goes to communication: meetings, email, chat (Microsoft Work Trend Index)

Sources: Observatoire de l’Infobésité et de la Collaboration Numérique: annual reference study · Microsoft Work Trend Index: Will AI Fix Work?