Office & teams
How many runs will it take to earn back the time spent automating a task?
Monthly hours saved equal runs times minutes saved divided by 60. Divide setup effort by monthly hours for payback in months. Year-one net time subtracts setup from twelve months of savings, assuming steady volume and no maintenance effort.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Hours saved each month 3 h
- Task runs per month
- 60 runs
- Time saved on each run
- 3 min
- Setup and testing effort
- 15 h
Other results
- Months to recover setup time
- 5
- Net hours saved in year one
- 21 h
Use your own figures
Estimate when the setup effort will have paid for itself in staff time. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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