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- SaaS spend per employee
- £1,680/yr
- Our default (10 apps at £14 a month). This sits below VendorBenchmark's 2026 median of $2,650 per employee for companies under 250 staff.
- Hidden spend
- +20–40%
- Subscriptions bought on personal cards or team budgets often never reach IT, so most businesses underestimate what they really spend.
- Admin time
- ~5 days/month
- Our estimate for a 75-person business, shared across Finance, Ops and IT: offboarding leavers (5 hrs each, Nudge Security 2023, at 15% turnover), onboarding joiners, licence and renewal admin, access requests, everyday helpdesk support for SaaS tools and audit evidence. Roughly a working week a month.
- Idle licences
- 22%
- Below published benchmarks of 14% fully unused (Vertice, Q2 2026) to 36% unused against recommended levels (Zylo 2026 SaaS Management Index).
- Duplicate tools
- 9%
- Conservative estimate. Zylo reports widespread overlap in project management, collaboration and training apps.
- Plan right-sizing
- 30% of staff
- Blended monthly gap between Microsoft 365 plans based on current UK list prices (Business Standard, Premium, E3).
- Recovery rate
- 80%
- What HEJJE typically recovers, realised as contracts come up for renewal.
- Joiners and leavers
- 15% turnover
- UK average annual turnover (CIPD, spring 2025), with each leaver assumed to be replaced.
- Leavers keeping access
- 31%
- Share of former employees who still have company SaaS access (DoControl SaaS Risk Report).