SeatMap.AI
Week 44, 2025 · 2025-10-27 → 2025-11-02

Week 44, 2025: Slack tops the SaaS-waste board at 46.9% ghost seats

Median ghost seats
29.2%
Median reclaimable
$6.9k/yr
Workspaces audited
346
Reclaimed this week
$263k

Across 346 workspaces audited this week, the median team is sitting on 29.2% ghost seats — about $6,943/year of reclaimable spend per company.

Slack led the waste board at 46.9% inactive seats, driven by trial creep and stalled cross-team pilots. Slack came in at 27.9%, Microsoft 365 at 26.8%, and Salesforce at 19.2%.

SeatMap.AI operators reclaimed a combined $262,910 in annualized spend the week of 2025-10-27 — most of it from routine contractor and role-change cleanup, not one-off big wins.

Vendor movers this week

  • Asana+3.3% ghost-seat rate
  • Confluence−4.6% ghost-seat rate
  • Loom+1.9% ghost-seat rate

Category breakdown

Median ghost-seat rate by tier-1 vendor this week.

Slack27.9%
Microsoft 36526.8%
Salesforce19.2%

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