What Do Manual Screen Updates Really Cost You?

Every USB stick swap, site-by-site login, and forwarded file adds up to hours your team never gets back. And most companies have never put a number on it.

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Your numbers

Locations you push screen content to Hours per week, per location, spent on updates Include prep, logging in to each site's system, copying or shipping media and on-site install. The example uses about 0.2 hours per location per week: one update every two weeks at about 0.4 hours per location each time. Blended hourly labor cost $ Time saved by centralizing: 50% Set this to a figure you can defend internally. It is your estimate, not a Skykit guarantee.

What centralizing could save

—hours back per week

—hours back per year

—labor cost saved per year

How this is calculated

Hours spent per year = locations × hours per week per location × 52.

Hours back = hours spent per year × your time-saved estimate. Labor cost saved = hours back × your hourly rate.

The 100-location example is built from a step-by-step estimate of one manual update cycle: about 10 minutes of central prep per location, a shared distribution run, and roughly 12 minutes of on-site work per location. That comes to close to 40 hours of combined labor for one cycle across 100 locations. At one cycle every two weeks, that is about 0.2 hours per location per week.

This counts labor only. It does not include shipping, travel, the cost of a location running outdated content, or headcount you'd need to add as you grow.

What Do Manual Screen Updates Really Cost You?

Your numbers

What centralizing could save

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