Billing Ethics
Jurabilis | 16. April 2006 — Dear Mr. Schaeffer: This is a question about billable hours. Recently, I switched law firms. At the old firm, we billed in 6-…
SeamlessWeb seems just a half-step down from and a half-hour slower than, the food replicators in "Star Trek*." You can have a sumptuous $25 sushi dinner from Hatsuhana in 30 minutes. Employees gush about the rich variety and the quality of the cuisine that unfurls across their Web browsers - a vast improvement over the days when wrinkled takeout menus accumulated in manila folders stuffed in file cabinets ... Brian Wong, a 27-year-old financial analyst who said he works 14-hour days, estimates that SeamlessWeb saves him at least five minutes a day, because he doesn't have to dial a phone number or fumble for money to pay the deliveryman. "If you multiply that by the number of days in a year you work, about 300, that's 1,500 minutes, which is 25 hours a year," Mr. Wong said. "You could be more aggressive, and say it saves you 10 minutes a day. That's 50 hours a year - that's a w…
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