SeatMap.AI
Week 52, 2025 · 2025-12-22 → 2025-12-28

Week 52, 2025: GitHub tops the SaaS-waste board at 42% ghost seats

Median ghost seats
27.3%
Median reclaimable
$3.9k/yr
Workspaces audited
763
Reclaimed this week
$89k

Across 763 workspaces audited this week, the median team is sitting on 27.3% ghost seats — about $3,908/year of reclaimable spend per company.

GitHub led the waste board at 42% inactive seats, driven by trial creep and stalled cross-team pilots. Slack came in at 31.6%, Microsoft 365 at 25.1%, and Salesforce at 14.5%.

SeatMap.AI operators reclaimed a combined $89,176 in annualized spend the week of 2025-12-22 — most of it from routine contractor and role-change cleanup, not one-off big wins.

Vendor movers this week

  • Confluence+5.5% ghost-seat rate
  • Loom−2.4% ghost-seat rate
  • Airtable+0.1% ghost-seat rate

Category breakdown

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

Slack31.6%
Microsoft 36525.1%
Salesforce14.5%

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