Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences

Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by xapata on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:53PM (#14591887)

What do you mean by fully-loaded? Are you counting the cost of those 40 people taking two days away from work? If not ... ($200 per hour * 16 hours + $1,000 travel) * 2 employees ~ $8,400. Is training that cheap? To paraphrase a few folks from Hacker News, "Y'all need to raise your rates."

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Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by freeordead on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:58PM (#14591911)

Yes but then 40 people learn stuff instead of 2. So I think the benefits side has some additions, not just the cost side.

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Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by xapata on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:42PM (#14592033)

If you're giving up $128k in lost labor, you should make sure to hire an expert instructor. It's a rare keynote speaker that can also be a highly efficient teacher for 16 hours.

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