Peer out of your office door, whats your secretary doing right now? If you answered surfing the internet, taking a nap, or reading a magazine, its time to rethink where your money is going. In an ideal situation, a secretary would be paid for the work they accomplish and not for watching the clock. If is my theory that small businesses can save money by hiring a secretary part time to manage office business and utilizing an answering service to manage the phones.
Lets analyze this theory from purely a mathematical point of view using 6 variables A, B, C, D, E, & F.
1. Variable A: Secretary gets paid $12.00 per hour.
2. Variable B: Secretary works 8 hours per day.
3. Variable C: Secretary spends 40% of work day managing office work.
4. Variable D: Secretary spends 30% of work day managing inbound phone calls
5. Variable E: Secretary spends 12% of work day on lunch
6. Variable F: Secretary spends 18% of work day remaining unproductive
Based on these variables, your secretary gets paid $96.00 a day. With this figure broken down, they get paid $38.40 per day managing office work, $28.80 per day managing inbound phone...