The math is simple. UC costs €250 per user per year — for most professionals in a global company, roughly the cost of three to four hours of their time.
To pay for itself, UC has to save one colleague about four hours across an entire year. Everything beyond that is gain.
Anyone who works across cultures can estimate what a single misunderstanding costs.
Confusion. Emails back and forth. The video-call to clear things up. Follow-up emails to be sure. Think of the last one you watched unfold. Rarely under two hours.
So across a full year, UC pays for itself if it heads off two of them. The real question is not whether it saves four hours, but instead how far past those four hours it goes.
Take what UC returns: users × hours saved per year × their hourly cost. Subtract your UC investment: users × €250. What’s left is your net gain.
Wait. That is calculating only time. Although difficult to quantify, there are three more reasons. Three Reasons
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