Lots of the SaaS products we use mean we don't have to hire more employees. So I'm not sure if dollars per employee is a meaningful stat.
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#12And after the consumer market even SaaS software is getting to a saturation point.
Time for a "manage your SaaS subscriptions" SaaS. (I'm fairly sure this exists, actually.)
Those are known as "vendors" and they're how the government participates in modern subscription models due to how the acquisitions cycle works.
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#13If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.
Most enterprises don't spend >200k an employee. Do people really believe that is a normal salary?
Re: Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
#14Crazy. Seems that a lot of these tools are purchased by single departments and poorly integrated into rest of the org—creating more chaos and thus need for more tools.
Sounds like the solution is to have a SaaS tool which shows what other SaaS tools are being accessed by your organization.
Hm how would we make that cost more though if there aren’t that many large organizations
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#15I'm a little skeptical of the numbers as they sound out of bounds but I think the trend is clear: fewer people doing more with automation.
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#17If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.
Most enterprises don't spend >200k an employee. Do people really believe that is a normal salary?
Fully loaded costs (health benefits, 401k matching, cost of computer, HR business partners, etc.) for an employee are roughly 2x what their salary is. So yeah, 200k is a good estimate.
Re: Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
#18If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.
Most enterprises don't spend >200k an employee. Do people really believe that is a normal salary?
The assumption is a $100K salary. The other $100K is benefits, management, overhead, etc.
Re: Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
#19If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.
Most enterprises don't spend >200k an employee. Do people really believe that is a normal salary?
I don't know about most enterprises but I'm guessing any given cost per employee includes a lot more than salary.
Re: Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
#20Wildly overpriced subscription-based products that don't have to be subscription-based at all from the functionality standpoint