How much time does automation actually save? — answered by Engineer Saeed Baatiah
The real saving is usually larger than expected because the arithmetic forgets switching cost: an employee who interrupts their work to answer a message needs minutes to regain focus afterwards. An automation that removes five repeated minutes twenty times a day does not save an hour and a half but close to double that in effective productivity. This is why small high-frequency automations return more than large rare ones.