What 26 Hours a Year of Timesheeting Is Actually Costing You
Half an hour each Friday sounds small. Run the math across a year, a team, and a career — it is not.
What 26 Hours a Year of Timesheeting Is Actually Costing You
Half an hour every Friday. That is the standard. Some people grind through it in 15 minutes if their week was simple; most spend 45 minutes if anything is fuzzy.
Let us pick the friendly middle: 30 minutes a week.
The personal cost
- 30 minutes × 52 weeks = 26 hours per year, per person
- That is more than three full workdays
The team cost
A team of 20 people, each spending 26 hours a year on timesheets, burns 520 hours annually — about a quarter of one full-time employee — just typing things they already knew into a different form.
The hidden second-order cost
The numbers above do not include:
- The Friday afternoon focus loss as you mentally prepare to do the timesheet
- Late submissions that escalate to managers
- Accuracy disputes when a guessed hour shows up in a client invoice
- Burnout from a task that nobody enjoys, every single week
What we offer in exchange
Stintt replaces the 30 minutes with about three minutes of review:
- Connect your calendar (and any of: Outlook, Teams, Zoom, Jira, Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Toggl)
- Open the app on Friday
- Glance at the auto-generated week, fix anything that looks off, click export
Why we charge what we charge
Our paid tier is $5 a month — about $60 a year. If we save you 23 hours of work valued at even $30/hour, the ROI is roughly 11x. For a team plan, the multiple grows.
We are not trying to be clever about pricing. We just think the price of a tool that saves three workdays a year should be small.
The opt-out option
Free forever for individual users with one calendar source. Try it for a month. If you do not save real time, do not upgrade.
Run the math on your own week → — the trial covers a full Friday.
- See how Stintt builds automatic timesheets from Google Calendar
- Set up the Google Calendar timesheet integration
- Try the free timesheet calculator
- Compare plans on Stintt pricing
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