Chad Smith wrote:
You leave out the re-education process. Going from MS Office XP to MS Office 2003 does require a slight readjustment period (some icons look different, more buttons on the screen, a few menu choices may have moved) but not as much as it would to go from Office XP to OOo 2.0.
This is a per seat fee, since every single person who uses the program
is going to have to learn the new program. Let's say the difference
in the amount of time it takes for people's productivity to return to
normal when switching from MSO X to MSO X+1 compared to switching from
MSO X to OOo X is 25 hours.
Hi Chad,
I train people in groups of 4 to 6 persons. That takes them 4 hours.
After that, they not only know where the differences between MsO and OOo are, they also have learnt:
a - how to use an editor as it has to be done; (know how many time people lose day after day by ineffective use of their editor?)
b - how to make use of serveral of OOo's great features.
So you should make new coutings, to see the profits because of incresed productivity ;-)
Apart from these 'exact' considerations: what do employees loose by talking, surfing the internet, chatting, arguing with the bosses...
In many comps, there's a world to win on many fields. Software only being one of those.
Kind regards,
Cor
-- Cor Nouws http://www.nouenoff.nl Excellent software - professional support
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