The Naked Writer – Truth about documents revealed!

So you own a company and you have employees working for you. You are happy that you’re making money, and you feel like you don’t have anything to worry about. But have you ever stopped to think how much you are ACTUALLY spending?

Say for example, you have an employee (let’s call her Jenny) who works as an administrative assistant. Her hourly pay is $12 per hour (plus benefits). You ask her to write up a Policy & Procedures document since you now have a total of 5 employees now, you want them to be aware of all the company policies. Jenny is not too familiar with writing policies and procedures and takes 4 hours to write the document. She gives you the final rough draft and you find a lot of mistakes – misspelled words, inaccurate information, etc. You give Jenny back the document and she spends another hour correcting it. All in all, she spent 5 hours creating the document. At that point you have spent $220 paying Jenny in salary & benefits, spending 1 hour reviewing the document yourself (let’s say you earn $50/ hour yourself – at least), and having Jenny edit the document.

Then you give the finished (or what you thought) document to your HR person Linda, and she spends another hour correcting the information.  You pay Linda $24/hr (plus benefits).  So then Linda approves the document and gives it to your web designer Ray to publish to the Intranet website (whom you pay $19/hr, plus benefits).

You proudly go back to your office and happy that you just saved a ton of money by writing the policies and procedures document in-house. Where in fact, you have spent $304 in salary fees !!! But if you would’ve hired a professional to write the document, it would only cost you $200 bucks – a savings of ($104). But since you made your employees write the document, they had to shift their other projects, thus costing you more money – can we say thousands of dollars?

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