Why Corporate Training Videos Save Michigan Companies Thousands

Feb 12

Professional videographer filming a corporate training session inside a modern Michigan workplace with employees gathered around.

If your company is still onboarding employees with PDFs, shadowing, and long meetings… you are bleeding time and money.

And most Michigan businesses don’t even realize it.

Every time you hire someone new, you are paying for repetition. Re-explaining processes. Re-answering the same questions. Re-training on the same mistakes.

That cost adds up fast.

Now multiply that by 5 hires a year. Or 20.

This is where corporate training videos change everything.

The Hidden Cost of Traditional Onboarding

Let’s say a manager making $80,000 a year spends 15 hours training every new hire. That’s roughly $600–$800 in labor cost per employee, not including lost productivity.

And that doesn’t even account for inconsistency.

When training isn’t standardized, every employee gets a slightly different version. That leads to mistakes. Confusion. Slower ramp-up time.

For manufacturing companies, contractors, medical offices, and service businesses here in Michigan, that can mean:

• Safety risks

• Customer experience issues

• Expensive operational errors

• High turnover

Training videos solve this at the root.

Why Video Works Better

Video is repeatable.

It’s scalable.

It’s consistent.

When you create a professional onboarding or training series, you build an asset that works for you 24/7. Every new hire gets the exact same message. The same expectations. The same process walkthrough.

Instead of pulling your leadership team away from revenue-generating work, you press play.

Even better… employees can rewatch sections anytime. That reduces mistakes and builds confidence faster.

For growing companies in Oakland County and across Michigan, that time savings alone can translate into thousands per year.

It’s Not Just About Training

Employee watching a professional training video on a laptop inside a warehouse environment.

There’s another benefit most businesses miss.

When you invest in professional training videos, you’re also improving:

• Company culture

• Employee engagement

• Brand perception internally

• Long-term scalability

It shows your team you take development seriously.

And if you’re recruiting talent, having structured onboarding systems makes you more attractive than competitors who are still winging it.

The ROI Is Real

Vector illustration showing video content as a scalable growth asset for businesses.

Here’s what I’ve seen with clients.

Once a company builds a professional video training library:

• Onboarding time drops

• Managers reclaim hours every month

• New hires ramp up faster

• Mistakes decrease

And the videos don’t expire after one use. They keep working year after year.
This is not an expense.

It’s an operational investment.
If you run a Michigan-based company and you’re planning to grow this year, training video content should not be optional.

It should be part of your growth strategy.

If you want to explore what that could look like for your company, visit:

👉 https://anthonybmedia.com/business

Let’s build assets that save you time and make you money.