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What does email overload cost your team?

Most teams waste thousands on low-value email every year. Calculate the real dollar cost and see how much you could save.

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Your results

Adjust the sliders and hit calculate to see the cost of email overload for your team.

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wasted on low-value email per year
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cost per employee / year
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total hours wasted / year
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full work days lost / year
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cost per hour of email time
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Projected savings with AI
With 60% email time reduction using Unboxd
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That's money walking out the door every day. Let AI read and summarize your emails so your team focuses on work that actually matters.

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The real cost of email overload

How much does email overload cost businesses?

Email overload costs the average business $1,250 per employee per month in lost productivity, according to research from McKinsey and the Harvard Business Review. For a 50-person company, that's over $750,000 per year. The cost comes from time spent reading, sorting, and responding to low-value emails that don't require action, plus the hidden cost of context switching.

What percentage of emails are actually important?

Research shows that only 38% of emails require a response, and just 12% are truly urgent. The remaining 50-60% are informational, newsletters, automated notifications, or CC'd threads that rarely need attention. Yet employees spend time reading them all, creating a massive productivity drain across the organization.

How can AI reduce email costs?

AI email tools like Unboxd can reduce email processing time by 60% or more by automatically reading, categorizing, and summarizing emails. Instead of every employee scanning every message, they receive a daily briefing with only action items and highlights. This eliminates the need to read low-value email entirely, saving both time and money.

How is the email ROI calculated?

The calculator converts your average salary to an hourly rate (based on 2,000 work hours per year), then multiplies by the daily hours spent on email, the percentage estimated as low-value, and the number of working days per year (250). This gives the total annual cost of email overload. Projected AI savings assume a 60% reduction in email processing time.

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