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Saving £1.6 million/month isn't nickel-and-diming. That's almost £20 million/annually, which is more than many companies make. As for the monitors, that may be
by gamblor956 6y ago
Saving £1.6 million/month isn't nickel-and-diming. That's almost £20 million/annually, which is more than many companies make.
As for the monitors, that may be COVID19 related. If the office is locked up, there are almost always physical/security procedures that must be followed in order to allow non-essential staff into the office...and that doesn't include any cleaning or sanitation that might be required by any COVID19 rules. This means that you need to have someone physically come to the office to open it up. On top of that, you need someone knowledgeable about the hardware (i.e., IT) to come in to make sure any employee taking a monitor home doesn't mess up anyone else's setup.
So you're risking exposing at least two lower-paid employees to COVID19 for the convenience of one higher-paid employee who could just buy his own goddamn monitor for £80 if he cares about the screen real estate that much.
- iso1631 6y agoOur offices are still open, just with 10% of the staff in them. And the "£1.6m a month" view is the problem -- if you are spending £5k a month, or 40p a minute, on the costs of keeping an employee (probably more with the cost of office space), an extra £10 a month is neither here nor there. If it costs just 1 minute extra a day, you're losing.
- benchaney 6y agoThe 1.6M figure is based on a company with 20,000 employees. How many of them have less than 20M in revenue? Also, your units are wrong. 1.6M is the total amount being risked. There is no realistic risk of losing that much every month unless you think that every employee is going to lose their monitor every month.