Interesting point I tried to make to a fellow entrepreneur the other day .
Just a quick background for context of this post, I have my own business and I deliberately chose an office that is a little more expensive (maybe saving $150 a month) but 3-5 minutes driving time from my home
I often hear "yeah it takes me about 30 minutes to get to my office" which is often responded to by saying "Yeah thats not to bad". i tried to debunk this theory and show how "bad" it is. consider this option A
Option B- Imagine you can get an office 10 minutes from your house.
The total travel time in option A is an hour a day (not even counting possible traffic delays)
By choosing option B and making it now a 20 minute total commute you save 40 minutes a day.
40 minutes x 5 days a week x 50 weeks (assuming you take 2 weeks vacation)= 10,000 minutes aka 166 hours aka 4 extra 40 hour work weeks.
If you were to tell someone they can have 4 weeks off instead of saving $150 *12 who wouldn't take that? Obviously the $150 savings is the factor but I am finding out it generally is not too different for small 1-3 employee type offices.
Just a quick background for context of this post, I have my own business and I deliberately chose an office that is a little more expensive (maybe saving $150 a month) but 3-5 minutes driving time from my home
I often hear "yeah it takes me about 30 minutes to get to my office" which is often responded to by saying "Yeah thats not to bad". i tried to debunk this theory and show how "bad" it is. consider this option A
Option B- Imagine you can get an office 10 minutes from your house.
The total travel time in option A is an hour a day (not even counting possible traffic delays)
By choosing option B and making it now a 20 minute total commute you save 40 minutes a day.
40 minutes x 5 days a week x 50 weeks (assuming you take 2 weeks vacation)= 10,000 minutes aka 166 hours aka 4 extra 40 hour work weeks.
If you were to tell someone they can have 4 weeks off instead of saving $150 *12 who wouldn't take that? Obviously the $150 savings is the factor but I am finding out it generally is not too different for small 1-3 employee type offices.
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