Frugal Software: Your Employer Might Help!
We have a family goal to learn Spanish at a conversational level. Since none of us speaks Spanish natively and we don’t have a lot of chances to interact with native speakers, we need help.
We have been thinking about buying Rosetta Stone Spanish because it has garnered good reviews and is well-known. It is, however, pretty expensive. We have so far held off on buying it but were thinking that we would buy it this year as a homeschooling expense.
However, I work for a large, multi-national company. I just found out that our company has licenses for Rosetta Stone and asked my boss if I could use it to improve my ability to interact with employees in our Spanish speaking facilities. He approved it, and I should have Rosetta Stone Spanish within a few days at no cost to me.
This is a win-win-win situation for myself, the company and my children. I will really learn Spanish at an accelerated rate, the company may benefit from this in the future if they decide to use my skills and my children will benefit by learning a language much more quickly, too. Since we will be learning together, we will be speaking it together and my skills will improve even more.
Many companies have software purchase programs that allow employees to use some software not only on their work computer but also on their home computer for free or at a greatly reduced cost. For instance, they will often do this with virus software since employees will read email or work from their own home computers.
So, if you have some software needs, check with your IT department and see if they have any purchasing programs like this. It could save you a bundle!
Buenos dias!
Have you found any creative ways to save on software? Does your company offer any other benefits like this?
