You know that monday.com board you’ve been meaning to fix?
The one that mostly works but makes your team groan every time they open it?
That’s the price of “good enough.” It isn’t always visible on a P&L, but it quietly eats hours of productivity each week. We’ll show you what that lost time looks like, how to calculate the real cost, and what to do when “good enough” starts holding you back.
Most monday.com accounts start as DIY projects.
Someone on the team (usually the most tech‑savvy) spins up a few boards. It works for a while. Then you grow. You add more teammates, more automations, more dashboards. Chaos creeps in.
Before long, your system is barely holding together. It’s not broken, but it’s not helping. The average “good enough” workspace wastes 8–12 hours per week on small inefficiencies: extra clicks, duplicate updates, hunting for scattered info, fixing broken automations, waiting on approvals, rebuilding views. Those minutes add up.
If a team of ten loses even one hour per person each day, that’s forty hours per week—basically an entire full‑time role lost to friction.
Let’s make it concrete. Here’s a quick way to estimate the waste:
Multiply that by your team’s size and hourly rate. Even at $40/hr for ten people, you’re looking at about $1,600 per week or $80,000 per year in quiet waste. All because your workspace “mostly works.”
A great monday.com workspace feels invisible. You don’t think about where things live; you just know.
Here’s how we build that at OrangeDot:
We’ve seen teams cut manual work by up to 40% in a month with the right rebuild. You don’t need a new tool. You need your tool to work the way you do.
Spend five minutes answering these:
✅ Do team members regularly ask where to find things?
✅ Do automations ever stop working because triggers aren’t met or a connected column or board was removed?
✅ Do you rebuild dashboards weekly?
✅ Do you still copy updates manually between boards?
✅ Do you feel like monday.com should be saving more time than it is?
Two or more yeses? You’ve hit the “good enough” wall. It’s time for a rethink.
How do I know if my monday.com setup needs a rebuild?
If you’re spending more time maintaining your workspace than using it, that’s your sign. A healthy setup should feel easy and predictable.
What’s the first thing to fix?
Start with your workflows, not your boards. Map what’s happening in real life, then make monday.com reflect it.
Can I improve my workspace without starting over?
Absolutely. A good monday.com expert can optimize your existing structure—merging boards, fixing automations, cleaning data—without scrapping everything.
How long does a rebuild take?
Most small‑to‑mid‑sized teams can go from chaos to clarity in about four weeks with the right process and training.
“Good enough” feels fine until it quietly costs you a full workweek every month. The best monday.com systems don’t just organize tasks; they organize thinking. When your workspace runs like your team does, that’s when the real productivity shows up.
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