The $10,000 Mistake Hiding in Your Google Docs

You think you’re saving money by doing things manually? Think again.

The Productivity Lie You’re Telling Yourself

You start your Monday morning like every other: coffee in one hand, a to-do list pulled up in Google Docs, and the quiet confidence that today, you’ll be productive. You have a system—client follow-ups in one tab, invoice tracking in another, and an ever-growing list of “things to automate later.”

Except “later” never comes. And that’s costing you—a lot.

The problem isn’t just inefficiency. It’s that your insistence on handling tasks manually is draining your bottom linemore than you realize. In fact, businesses lose an average of $10,000 per employee per year on unnecessary manual work. Let’s break down how you’re silently burning cash.

The Hidden Tax of Manual Work

Time is money. But let’s put a price tag on it.

• The average small business owner spends 120+ hours per year on administrative tasks that could be automated. That’s three full workweeks lost to inefficiency.

• Employees spend 40% of their workday on repetitive, low-value tasks like data …