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My company paid a consultant £25K to increase efficiency. He recovered about 5 minutes a job. I wrote a tool that saved about two hours a case, in total this s

• kakwa_ 3y ago
  You are lucky, I got nothing for heavily suggesting a ~1M/year saving. The only "personal" reward I get from that is: whenever I feel guilty for not having done much in a given day, I remind myself that by this action alone, I've saved my company several times what I would ever cost them. Helps with self-esteem, but I don't think my company see it that way.
• switch007 3y ago
  Are you a consultant now?
• fennecfoxy 3y ago
  That's the difference between perm/consultant I guess. Perm is more "we pay you so fix this", consultant is more the reverse "we need this fixed so we'll pay you". I always find that dynamic hilarious because in a general sense permanent employees have more value than contractors/consultants as perms usually have a much longer tenure at a company (years and years, vs 6 months to 1 year). However one thing I noticed after moving to the UK is that the culture is completely different here - everywhere I've worked here there are contractors who stay for years and years like a perm would. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does make me reconsider why anybody would ever be a permanent employee beyond a bit more job security (ie long term contractors definitely have to trust that they'll be renewed, even if they usually are it's always possible for the business to decide otherwise).