> I suppose the thinking is that by having each employee of a big organization do a small amount of work, they can avoid hiring a central person who just accept

> I suppose the thinking is that by having each employee of a big organization do a small amount of work, they can avoid hiring a central person who just accepts receipts in envelopes and deals with them. In a big company that person who 'just accepts receipts and deals with them' will have to enter the receipt into an expenses system like Concur anyway. Personally I find it much easier and faster to input it myself than to put everything in an envelope with enough information in the envelope to allow an admin to correctly expense/bill it (e.g. cost centers, an explanation for why the hotel was over the policy allowance, a bank transaction for that thing I lost the reciept for...). > When companies need photos of their employees they find a photographer who provides that service. They don't ask each employee to learn about lighting technique and do the post processing according to a written set of standards in hopes the photos will look consistent. But with Concur that's what happens. IMO the better comparison would be hiring an in-house photo team which has to be used any time anyone in the company wants a photo of something. It's quicker for me to take a photo of this prototype I made than it is for me to arrange for the in-house photographer to come.