SeatMap.AI
Week 38, 2026 · 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-20

Week 38, 2026: Asana tops the SaaS-waste board at 40.1% ghost seats

Median ghost seats
29.8%
Median reclaimable
$9.0k/yr
Workspaces audited
590
Reclaimed this week
$148k

Across 590 workspaces audited this week, the median team is sitting on 29.8% ghost seats — about $9,031/year of reclaimable spend per company.

Asana led the waste board at 40.1% inactive seats, driven by trial creep and stalled cross-team pilots. Slack came in at 27%, Microsoft 365 at 21.6%, and Salesforce at 21.6%.

SeatMap.AI operators reclaimed a combined $148,466 in annualized spend the week of 2026-09-14 — most of it from routine contractor and role-change cleanup, not one-off big wins.

Vendor movers this week

  • GitHub+3.9% ghost-seat rate
  • 1Password−1.8% ghost-seat rate
  • Miro+2.1% ghost-seat rate

Category breakdown

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

Slack27%
Microsoft 36521.6%
Salesforce21.6%

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