10 Ways To Save Taxpayers $6 Billion
While many thousands of government bureaucrats spend hundreds of thousands of hours wrangling over ways to cut budgets one answer might be right at their fingertips.
The U.S. Census Bureau says there are more than 19 million full-time civilian employees at all levels of government. If one out of four of those employees saved $1500 per year through cost reduction and increased productivity that could amount to $6 billion savings or more each year.
Here are ten ways that municipal, county, state and federal government employees could could achieve direct cost savings and increased productivity:
Perform more precise Internet searches to gain as much as 20 more productive hours each year.
Use free information sources rather than costly subscription databases.
Use selected free Internet services instead of costly duplicate programming services.
Employ a simple unified method to manage information more efficiently.
Set up automatic systems to monitor and email desired information.
Use OpenOffice and other safe and reliable free software.
Adopt the use of keyboard shortcuts to save up 15 hours per year when using computers.
Enforce a routine regimen to clean and defragment hard drives to increase performance.
Invest $60 per computer user to upgrade RAM and save up to 20 work hours per year.
Eliminate the use of annoying pop-up survey requests on government web sites.
For the past two decades David Vine, MBA has been helping professionals in government and the private sector to cut costs, save time, know more and do more with Internet. His seminars, workshops, webinars and information products have helped more than 10,000 professionals throughout the U.S. and overseas implement these procedures.
According to Mr. Vine, “The proposed direct savings are a conservative estimate. The increased productivity alone would be well worth the investment considering the cumulative effect in subsequent years.”