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What is IT downtime really costing you?
Most UAE businesses underestimate it. Put in your own numbers below and see the cost per hour, per incident and per year — instantly, in your browser.
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Tip: monthly salary ÷ 176 ≈ hourly cost. Use a fully-loaded figure if you can.
For customer-facing or production systems where an outage directly stops sales.
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The good news
Most of this cost is preventable.
Downtime is rarely bad luck — it is usually unmanaged risk. Three things bring the number down fast.
Common questions
About downtime cost.
How is the cost of IT downtime calculated?
The simplest model multiplies the number of affected staff by their average hourly cost, then by the hours lost per incident and the number of incidents per year. Add any direct lost revenue per hour for customer-facing or production systems. This calculator does exactly that with your own figures.
What counts as IT downtime?
Any period your team cannot work normally because of technology — a server or network outage, an email or Microsoft 365 disruption, a ransomware lockout, or a failed system after a bad update. Even short, frequent outages add up quickly across a whole team.
How can Missan reduce our downtime cost?
Proactive managed IT prevents many incidents, tested backup and disaster recovery shortens the ones that happen, and cybersecurity stops the most expensive cause of all — ransomware. The free IT health check shows where your biggest downtime risks are today.
See where your downtime risk really is.
The free IT health check pinpoints the gaps most likely to cost you — before they do.