SeatMap.AI
Week 34, 2026 · 2026-08-17 → 2026-08-23

Week 34, 2026: GitHub tops the SaaS-waste board at 43.1% ghost seats

Median ghost seats
25.5%
Median reclaimable
$5.6k/yr
Workspaces audited
361
Reclaimed this week
$165k

Across 361 workspaces audited this week, the median team is sitting on 25.5% ghost seats — about $5,576/year of reclaimable spend per company.

GitHub led the waste board at 43.1% inactive seats, driven by trial creep and stalled cross-team pilots. Slack came in at 29.3%, Microsoft 365 at 19.9%, and Salesforce at 14.8%.

SeatMap.AI operators reclaimed a combined $165,296 in annualized spend the week of 2026-08-17 — most of it from routine contractor and role-change cleanup, not one-off big wins.

Vendor movers this week

  • Confluence+5.9% ghost-seat rate
  • Loom−3% ghost-seat rate
  • Airtable+2.9% ghost-seat rate

Category breakdown

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

Slack29.3%
Microsoft 36519.9%
Salesforce14.8%

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