{"slug":"the-problem/lost-productivity","title":"Lost Productivity","section":"the-problem","sectionLabel":"The Problem","status":"unclassified","type":"document","path":"the-problem/lost-productivity.mdx","bytes":624,"description":"Quantifying the cost of context loss and tool switching.","updated":null,"source":"integratewise/Integratewise-docs-wiki","content":"\n\n## The Numbers Speak\n\n- **2.5 hours per day**: The average time a knowledge worker spends searching for information and re-assembling context across tools (IDC).\n- **$12,000 per employee annually**: Direct financial loss attributable to fragmented information retrieval.\n- **60% of work time**: Spent on \"work about work\" — status updates, handoffs, sync meetings, and double data entry.\n\nWork shouldn't be about maintaining records in five tools. Work should be about driving outcomes.\n"}