![Findability calculator] Findability value calculator | Content Formula Business case tool # What is time spent finding things costing you? Reducing the time employees spend hunting for information is one of the most common success criteria our clients set. This works out what that time is worth in your business, so you have a number to take to your board. Every figure below is yours to set, not ours to assume. What that adds up to 18.6 people, full time, doing nothing but looking for things That is the equivalent headcount tied up across a year. Hours lost across the business each year 32,500 13 hours per person Value of that time £975,000 At the hourly rate you set Capacity released at your recovery rate £321,750 Recovering 33% of the time lost Hours given back each year 10,725 6.1 people, full time ### Read this before you present it This is capacity released, not cash saved. Recovered hours only become money if that time goes to work with a return attached, so present it as capacity you can redeploy rather than a cost you can cut. Your finance team will ask, and having the answer ready is the difference between a case that lands and one that stalls. It is a directional model built on your own estimate, not an audited saving. Its job is to show whether the problem is worth investigating properly. ### Take this to your board A short summary you can paste into an email or a paper. It states the assumptions openly, because a case that shows its workings is harder to dismiss. Copy summary [Talk to a consultant](https://contentformula.com/discuss-a-project/) Copied Content Formula · digital workplace consultancy since 2005 [How a discovery establishes the real figure →](https://contentformula.com/solutions/digital-workplace-discovery/)