Your team is working full hours, but how many of those hours are focused on the right work? A question that cannot be easily answered. The term productivity leakage often refers to the gap between the hours your team worked and the number of those hours dedicated to meaningful work.

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Productivity leakage is essentially the gap between the hours a team is paid for and the hours that actually generate measurable output.

This can look like:

* Deliberate time theft (logging time for work that wasn't done)
* Manual work, inefficient processes
* Time wasted in context switching

Unnecessary meetings

Here's how it compounds over time:

* Missed deadlines
* Margin erosion
* Higher labor costs for the same output

If you're curious to learn more about how productivity leakage hurts your ROI in the long run, 

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Understand where your team's time really going to spot productivity leakage