SeatMap.AI
Week 41, 2026 · 2026-10-05 → 2026-10-11

Week 41, 2026: Dropbox tops the SaaS-waste board at 43% ghost seats

Median ghost seats
26.7%
Median reclaimable
$5.4k/yr
Workspaces audited
254
Reclaimed this week
$215k

Across 254 workspaces audited this week, the median team is sitting on 26.7% ghost seats — about $5,422/year of reclaimable spend per company.

Dropbox led the waste board at 43% inactive seats, driven by trial creep and stalled cross-team pilots. Slack came in at 25.8%, Microsoft 365 at 24.7%, and Salesforce at 18.7%.

SeatMap.AI operators reclaimed a combined $215,170 in annualized spend the week of 2026-10-05 — most of it from routine contractor and role-change cleanup, not one-off big wins.

Vendor movers this week

  • Notion+3.9% ghost-seat rate
  • HubSpot−4.6% ghost-seat rate
  • Zoom+2.9% ghost-seat rate

Category breakdown

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

Slack25.8%
Microsoft 36524.7%
Salesforce18.7%

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