For contracts managers and operations directors

What does the chasing cost you?

Ringing round for proof. Re-cutting a round because someone didn’t show. Asking again. It never appears on a budget line, so nobody has ever put a number on it. Three questions, and you have one.

Start with the three questions What it looks like fixed

Four taps, all your own figures
Nothing is stored unless you ask
No industry average hidden in it

Answer in

Supervisors or contracts managers4Anyone whose week includes chasing other people for what happened.Hours a week each one spends on it5 hChasing proof, re-covering rounds, answering “was this done?”. Ask one of them — it is usually higher than you think.What an hour of their time costs€28Salary plus everything you pay on top of it — employer contributions, holiday, the lot.

€29,120a year, on chasing

Hours a week, across the team20 h
Hours a year1,040 h
Cost a week€560
As full-time people0.5 ×

Less than a full-time role — worth knowing before anyone tries to sell you something.

Every number here is one you typed, in € because that is what you picked — we have assumed nothing about your trade and there is no industry average hidden in it. A 37.5-hour week is the only figure we supplied, and it is used for the last row and the bar above.

Where the number usually comes down

Somebody has to reconstruct the day afterwards, out of memory and messages, for a client who wants one line of it.

The re-cut before sevenTwo people don’t show, and the round has to be redrawn by someone who is also driving. Taking them off the board and letting their sites go back out is one move instead of forty texts.
“Was this done?”Every one of those is a phone call to somebody who may have left. A line saying who, which site, which night and what was ticked ends it in the reply.
The new starterWritten once, in the language she reads, and on her phone every night after — instead of a phone call and a good luck, every time somebody leaves.

Two colleagues in hi-vis walking a warehouse aisle, one holding a clipboard. — The part nobody costs: two people, an aisle, and a question that should have had an answer already.

Take the number with you

A calculator is a hard thing to put in front of a finance director. A page is not.

What you get

Your own figures and the annual number they produce, in the currency you picked
The share of the supervision year, with both numbers it came from
The same arithmetic written out, so nobody has to take it on trust
One page, printable, no branding you have to explain

It lands in your inbox in about a minute. Nobody rings you unless you ask us to.

What does the chasing cost you?

Where the number usually comes down

Take the number with you

Send me this as something I can show someone