How much are notifications costing you?

Calculate the true productivity cost of constant pings, alerts, and notifications across Slack, email, Teams, and more.

Slack Messages Per Day

Average messages across all channels

Emails Per Day

Total inbox notifications

Teams/Chat Notifications Per Day

Microsoft Teams or similar

Phone Notifications Per Day

Push notifications, SMS, calls

Meetings With Notifications

Calendar alerts & meeting pings

Context Switch Recovery

min

UC Irvine research: ~23 minutes

% Notifications That Are Actionable

What % actually require your attention?

Your Hourly Rate

Fully-loaded cost or salary equivalent

Team Size

Number of people on your team

Notification Breakdown

Slack

Teams

Phone

Slack: 80 (44%)

Email: 45 (25%)

Teams: 30 (17%)

Phone: 25 (14%)

Total Daily Notifications

180

Unnecessary Notifications / Day

153

Hours Lost to Context Switching / Day

8.0h

Daily Productivity Cost

$600.00

Weekly Cost Per Person

$3,000

Monthly Team Cost

$132,000

Annual Team Cost

$1,584,000

Focus Hours Recovered If Fixed

8.0h / day

Tools to Fix This

Reduce notification noise and reclaim your focus time.

Slack DND & Scheduled Send

Built-in Do Not Disturb and notification scheduling

Mailman

Batch email delivery at scheduled times

Friday.app

Async-first communication for teams

Reclaim.ai

AI-powered calendar management and focus time

Clockwise

Intelligent calendar optimization for focus blocks

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