All of this can be made up after the fact. If you want to bill your client a million hours you can. Grow up. Learn. You might spend 20 hours on Google trying to fix an obscure bug. What the hell does your client know to challenge that?
More likely is that you spend 20 hours refactoring crappy code that someone thought was good enough and it wasn't. Or they didn't know what on earth they were doing. Total waste of time but it's officially already been billed for.
Long and short is your consultants will be charging what they think they can get away with. Whether it be less or more than you log.
And utter bullshit like this comes from someone who doesn't actually bill or who hasn't had to ruefully swallow a job where they end up billing far less than they did.
My favourite real life 'story' about time billing, a bunch of straight-from-uni 'consultants' billed at £250 p/h for photocopying sheet by sheet. You bill what you can get away with.
More likely is that you spend 20 hours refactoring crappy code that someone thought was good enough and it wasn't. Or they didn't know what on earth they were doing. Total waste of time but it's officially already been billed for.
Long and short is your consultants will be charging what they think they can get away with. Whether it be less or more than you log.
And utter bullshit like this comes from someone who doesn't actually bill or who hasn't had to ruefully swallow a job where they end up billing far less than they did.
My favourite real life 'story' about time billing, a bunch of straight-from-uni 'consultants' billed at £250 p/h for photocopying sheet by sheet. You bill what you can get away with.