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Here’s a quick and easy way for you to save a grand

November 26, 2009

The easiest way to save money is to look at how you cover secretarial work for the holiday periods and extended absences such as maternity leave.  The average holiday entitlement is 25 days, or five working weeks, per year, plus bank holidays. 

Now granted, you probably don’t need to worry about having enough secretarial cover during peak holiday weeks in the summer or at Easter if you have solicitors and fee earners absent too.  So let’s be generous and halve the figure say you need a temporary secretary for three weeks a year. 

A temping agency will cost you about £500 a week.  And the quality of the output from the temp depends on how lucky you are with the person assigned to you.  How many terrible experiences with temps have you or your colleagues had? 

To outsource typing from a very busy fee earner can cost anything up to £200 a week and there are plenty of case studies which you can rely upon to support this.

So outsourcing dictation for those peak busy times will keep you on top of your work, you won’t have any backlog, you don’t ever have to deal with “terrible temps” and it will save you about £1,000 per year per secretary.

If you want to know how it works, it’s very easy.  Simply call us and ask for our free software and we’ll also arrange for free set up and installation.   

If you want bigger savings, the you should look closely at your workflow - what type of work are your secretaries doing and can your processes be refined using your case management systems.  In most cases secretaries are spending at least 50% of their time typing.  And if you outsource that element of a secretary’s job you can slash your secretarial overhead.  If you would like to discuss in a free consultation please call us.

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