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Slow IT Support Costs More Than the Ticket Price.
Every hour an employee waits for IT help is paid time they cannot fully use. Estimate what slow response is costing your company, then see what faster, more accountable support could change.
The Real Cost of IT Problems Is Employee Time
An IT issue does not have to shut down the entire company to become expensive. Employees can lose time waiting for help, working around broken tools, repeating requests, or trying to solve technical problems themselves. A small delay repeated across dozens of employees can become a meaningful annual labor cost.
Waiting Is Still Paid Time
Employees remain on payroll even when technical problems prevent them from working normally.
Small Delays Compound
A few incidents per employee, repeated every month, can create hundreds of lost hours.
Response Time Is a Business Metric
Ticket closure matters, but leaders should also understand how quickly employees can return to productive work.
What Is Slow IT Support Costing Your Company?
Estimate the labor cost of employees waiting for IT help. This is a directional estimate, not an accounting calculation.
Adjust Your Organization's Numbers
Full-time and regular team members who rely on IT support daily.
Average hardware, software, network, access, or system requests per person each month.
Illustrative starting point. Replace this with your organization’s help-desk data.
Editable scenario target for responsive support (e.g. 5 to 15 minutes).
Estimate how much normal productivity employees lose while waiting for help. Use 100% only when the issue completely prevents productive work.
Fully loaded hourly compensation including salary, taxes, and benefits.
Estimated Annual Labor Cost of Slow IT Response
Directional estimate based on your inputs. Compare support models before delay costs compound.
- Monthly incidents = employees × incidents per employee per month
- Avoidable delay = current first-response time minus target first-response time, with a minimum of zero
- Estimated lost hours = monthly incidents × avoidable delay in hours × assumed productivity impact
- Annual avoidable labor cost = estimated lost hours × loaded hourly labor cost × 12
This is a directional estimate based on the information entered, not a guaranteed savings figure. It estimates productivity lost while employees wait for help to begin. It does not include resolution time, revenue loss, security incidents, or other operational disruption.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as an IT incident?
Count an event that causes an employee to stop, slow down, or seek technical assistance. Examples include account problems, application errors, device issues, connectivity problems, and access requests.
Is this an accounting calculation?
No. It is a directional estimate designed to make the labor impact of response delays easier to understand.
Why does the calculator use first-response time?
First-response time is a measurable point in the support process and reflects how long an employee waits before someone begins helping. Full resolution time can create additional lost productivity that this calculator does not include.
Does faster response eliminate all lost productivity?
No. Some issues still take time to diagnose and resolve. The calculator only estimates the portion associated with avoidable waiting before support begins.
Do we have to replace our current IT provider?
No. The calculator can help evaluate any current support model. A conversation with Grux can determine whether the right next step is replacement, supplementation, or an improvement to the existing process.
Who is Grux designed for?
Grux works with growing teams that need dependable IT, security, productivity software, and practical automation without coordinating several disconnected vendors.
