[Spivak]

I think you have it backwards here. Most companies are pound wise in the sense that they consider the time cost of employees in a project management setting, but don't account for the small but frequent time wasted waiting on a slow network.

It's not impossible but it's a tough sell arguing for a 50k expenditure for better hardware for the VPN will actually save the company time worth >50k.

[hyperpape]

Hmm, maybe I underestimate the cost of VPN upgrades.

I'd say that there's a point where the overhead of spending money becomes high enough that companies will waste a lot of expensive employee time to avoid requisitioning something.

And although companies track high level time costs in a project management context, I'm not sure whether they're conscious of the way that time use can be driven by bits of waste.

That sorta fits "penny wise, pound foolish", but sorta doesn't.