Report
Dec 9, 2025
The True Cost of Compliance: Why "Cheap" Training is Costing You Millions
Magda Targosz
When you ask for budget, does your CFO sees your department as "Cost Center"?
1. The Hidden Cost of "Manual" Compliance
If you or your team spends 10 hours a week manually enrolling new hires, updating spreadsheets, or chasing managers for signatures, do the math.
Average Compliance Officer Salary (Dublin/London): ~€90k–£100k
Cost of Admin: If 25% of your time is admin, that’s £25,000 per year wasted on work a machine should do.
The SkillStudio Difference: Native integration with HRIS (like Workday or BambooHR) means enrollment happens automatically. Zero manual hours.
2. The Cost of "Check-the-Box" Training
Standard LMS platforms track completion (did they click the end?), not comprehension.
The Risk: An employee clicks through a GDPR course in 5 minutes but learns nothing. Two weeks later, they cause a data breach.
The Cost: The average cost of a data breach in the UK/EU is now over €4 million.
The Fix: Use a platform that measures understanding, not just clicks.
3. The "Opportunity Cost" of Your Team
This is the big one. Every hour your team spends formatting training videos is an hour they aren't spending on strategic risk assessment. The Bayer Example: By reducing course creation time from 8 hours to 2 hours using SkillStudio’s AI authoring, Bayer’s team freed up hundreds of hours. That isn’t just time saved; it’s strategic capacity gained.
Can you prove the ROI? Use our interactive Compliance Training ROI Calculator to plug in your team’s salary and hours. Show your CFO exactly how much money "manual compliance" is burning.
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