I agree that time is valuable, but if you charge yourself out at, say, £600 a day, and you save 4 grand building a phone switch in 2 days, it's an easy decision to make. It wasn't time squandered. I save money every time I need to make a change to the phone list, as I dont have to call out an engineer.
If you are a 2 person company, then there's obviously no point. We built our phone switch when we moved into our own offices and hired employee number 5, which I think was about the right time to do it.
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I agree that time is valuable, but if you charge yourself out at, say, £600 a day, and you save 4 grand building a phone switch in 2 days, it's an easy decision to make. It wasn't time squandered. I save money every time I need to make a change to the phone list, as I dont have to call out an engineer.
If you are a 2 person company, then there's obviously no point. We built our phone switch when we moved into our own offices and hired employee number 5, which I think was about the right time to do it.