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# [Are your leaders still doing their own admin?](https://smart-pa.com/corporate-blog/are-your-leaders-still-doing-their-own-admin)

 Written by [SmartPA](https://smart-pa.com/corporate-blog/author/smartpa) | Feb 2, 2024 4:47:36 PM

## **What’s the cost to your organisation?**

As every successful organisation understands, too much time spent on non-core activities will limit growth and slow your ROI. This maxim is particularly true when applied to individuals who are crucial to your organisation’s strategic development.

So, what ***is*** the cost of having your leadership team spend time on admin? The truth may surprise you …

 

Example:

 

Based on our experience, we estimate that leaders spend at least 1 hour per day on administrative tasks (although this has been found to be much higher in some circumstances).

 

##### **Doing the maths:**

Basing this on 234 working days per year, each leader is spending 234 hours a year on admin rather than on strategic activities. The result? A cost to business of £138,428 per annum. So, in our example looking at 10 business leaders, there is a cost of £13,843 per person.

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##### **Scaling up**

And what if we look at this cost pattern over a wider team of 100 stakeholders? The annual savings then become particularly significant:

 

 

##### Find out more

[Click here](https://smart-pa.com/corporate-products-and-services) to find out more about how SmartPA can help organisations empower stakeholders by creating more time for strategic working, or [contact us](https://smart-pa.com/uk/contact) to discuss your requirements.

 

Please note that while all information is derived from a client study, data points have been anonymised and aggregated to facilitate visual representation

### About SmartPA

SmartPA is a pioneer of remote, outsourced admin and business support, providing individual SmartPAs, multi-skilled cross-functional teams, and full lift and drop admin process outsourcing. Working with more than 5,000 businesses of all sizes world-wide, SmartPA draws on a global talent pool of accredited SmartPAs, with a Centre of Excellence based in the UK, near shore hubs in South Africa and Uganda, and an offshore hub in Malaysia.

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