Recommendation for HTML

The company is considering HTML training for employees. As we know HTML is the coding that is used to edit and create webpages. As manager of 30 employees I wanted to bring to your attention on training our employees to learn HTML. By doing do, these skills will be a big help to them by understanding the language of coding.  As of right now, our company out sources a small company to do all the coding. According to our Income statement from last year it costed the company $50,000 altogether.

            Having a few employees within the organization expertise at HTML is very helpful. Do we need to train all employees for this? My personal opinion is no. I don’t think it would be necessary to train all employees for HTML but providing these services at their own pace would be helpful. We could have the employees that would be using this more take this training class and that would make them advanced, oppose to forcing all employees to take it could end up being a waste of time and money. By time I mean, that the work these employees have will be backed up. I was able to put some numbers together for the costs:

All employees – ( 30 X $250/per hr x 2(days) ) = $15,000

Select few employees (3 employees) – ( 3 x $250/per hr x 2 ) = $1,500

Because we are a small organization I don’t feel the need to train all employees for this tool. I choose to train the 3 because these employees seem to work with IT, and part of their job is to re-design webpages, blogs, etc. With the help of this training they will excel their knowledge and we will be able to save money without having to out-source a company to do this job. Any employee is more than welcome to attend these training, with a small cost that will be covered by the organization, but it would not be mandatory for all.

I recommend this training to the few that will need it for their specific job in IT. If we continue to use HTML in the down the line, we could make it a requirement for all and also increase salary’s but as of right now my recommendation would be to leave the few that work in IT. It would be beneficial to the employees since they will be proficient, and will also save the company $35,000 if we use it as much as we did last year, in which we will. If we did chose to train all in the future, we would still be saving $20,000. And with that we could give those few employees raises as well.