Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?
I like the idea, but a lot of other factors are missing from the analysis.<p>1. I’ve yet to find a service that saves 5 hours per week per employee.  How do I estimate the actual savings in time?<p>2. Work expands to fill available time.  Will my employee use that time to the company’s advantage?<p>3. How much does this increase or decrease my personal time required as supervisor?<p>4. From a financial point of view, I’m still paying the employee and the service, so either I need enough services and time savings that I can eliminate a job, or the service has to have positive ROI of its own.<p>And probably many more.  I often receive proposals of this type, that I could be “saving” so much by buying something.  The money goes out up front, the savings are supposed to trickle back in these hard to quantify and use ways.