Does this idea have potential?
Hey there.
I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work.
Can you help me, tell me if there is potential in this idea.
The idea in one line:
Perks for cloud computing.
Why and how?
In my company, we have some perks: English lessons, massage, etc.
But I agree to give up most of them (except for English lessons) I would be interested to experiment with clouds.
I believe that experiments with clouds increase the level of the employee, and this is very beneficial for the company, and the company will be happy to provide such benefits.
This type of benefits indicates the high level of the company and its value.
It is not about all money in the world, only some amount per month/year.
Why use my service instead of sending money directly to an employee?
For example, Bob became a new employee and company create an account for him with 50$/month.
Not all employees are interested in the cloud. If Bob does not use the cloud, the amount will be transferred from month to month.
The first benefit for the company:
It declared that it has cloud computing perk and it is true. The company won't need to manage if the user uses it or not.
If Bob just made some small experiment and it cost him 20$ my service will compensate him it and transfer 30$ for next month and company need just to refill 20$ for next month.
If Bob is fired, the money does not go away, it can be transferred to another employee or back to the company.
The second benefit:
Сost optimization.
The third benefit:
The company knows whether the employee is using the money for cloud computing for its intended purpose.
Main points of implementations:
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It will no be a subscription. The service will not store credentials in the bank account of the company and the employee only account numbers. The company will transfer money to service and I will transfer to the employee's account.
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I will ask the employee to give some access to their clouds. This is needed to verify that the employee is using the cloud.
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And last but not least: it will be agnostic about clouds. The employee will be able to work with any cloud that is convenient for him.
Do you think companies need this?
Thanks.
I will be very grateful for your feedback.
Having worked with "the cloud" over the past decade I am not sure what idea you have about it. Because, it is very complex and there is nothing like "here learn this about the cloud". There are just a lot of different providers, architectures, concepts and evolutions of these over time. When you say "here learn something about the cloud 10% of your time" it is like saying "here learn something about building self landing rockets 10% of your time". Most people do not have the discipline and perseverance in order to make the whole distance. IMO anyone wanting to learn more about a particular industry should work in said industry and not waste time anywhere else. Because, companies not riding in front of the wave will always be years behind and with them their employees. I do not believe any perks program will change that, because such initiatives need strategic commitment.
Your best bet is to create your own venture in the space and take the curious with you. You could try to pull of some educational program but it is an uphill battle and I would not start with the education sector in the first place. I am all for providing education, though you need a shit load of money for that and that means you need to do something else in the first place.
Happy to brainstorm further. Keep grinding. <3
Thank you, I will reflect on your words.
Hey,
not sure I get all the details. It sounds like at its core the perk is cloud computing training paid by the company for the employee.
I’ve done some of Googles classes and a bunch at Udemy.
The thing with training is that content is really the important need, not the access. As said most have free tiers and if you go there without knowing what to do and no instructor, I don’t really see it as beneficial as guided courses.
That said, it is an area of constant innovation and new business models do everything is possible, good luck with the idea!
The main idea:
the company needs it to look interesting in the job market and not to teach its employees.
Do companies need it? I'm not sure. Your words sound reasonable. Thank you.
You should probably just describe your personal use case.
You work in X and you want to learn Cloud to move to IT?
or you just want to learn new tools to use in your current position...
What's the position and what utils are you looking for to try? and how do they relate to your current position?...
(Also maybe just talk to you manager)
Use case for companies: look interesting in the job market.(these are just my guesses)
No specific service, just it all about fun and learning for their employee.
I am a Software Engineer and many of my friends in this sphere are interested to have such benefits in their company even for hosting side projects.
Your words:
These are good theses, I completely agree with them.
Thanks.
A few things popped into my head as I read this. "How do we train people to use cloud services?" is a problem in my company, but one that seems to have a lot of existing solutions. Cloud technologies are open-source, so some people have experience with some parts of the stack. Second, the cloud providers themselves produce guides. Third, there is a huge cottage industry around producing services and training resources for lots of these. LinkedIn Learning is a good example. So I'd ask you, "at the moment that people need help, why would they turn to your particular service, rather than expensing LinkedIn Learning courses?"
My second note is that a big part of your proposition is that companies will want to save money on this. I think they'd actually be willing to spend quite a bit to give their employees job-relevant education.. the alternative is bringing in contractors ($x0,000 to $x00,000 a year) or specialized hires ($x0,000 to $x00,000 a year). Spending a few thousand dollars to a company is a drop in the bucket compared to saving themselves a hire or contractor.
You have to put more details about “cloud” and clarify what you meant by it.
Hey.
I mean main cloud computing providers AWS, GCP, Azure...
Many companies are DevOps oriented.
Many dev are interested in new services and want to play for example with AWS SQS, Lambda, k8s...
And I think many companies with no learning purpose just for looks interesting in the market they can use cloud perks to describe that they want that employees are an explore cloud computing if it is interesting for them. (it is just my thoughts).