Would like to know the average number of EXTERNAL visitors per month 
per employee for different size businesses.  

Small (1 - 19) employees
Medium (20 - 9999) employees
Large (20,000)employees
No problem if data is not aligned exactly with size of businesses I
indicated.

An EXTERNAL visitor is any non-employee.  So an employee based in one
location visiting an employee based in another would NOT count.

Found one good example of a data point at this URL 
http://www.wisconsin.edu/impact/UWSReport.pdf indicating 24.4 visitors
per employee.

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Request for Question Clarification by knowledge_seeker-ga on 04 Jul 2003 18:10 PDT

Hi john1111, 

I don't think that what you are looking for is going to be
straightforward. We need to clarify a few things before we're going to
be able to find you any numbers.

First, the way I read them, the study statistics you cite refer solely
to visitors to full-time University of Wisconsin employees, EXCLUDING
those who "visit" the university to conduct "university related
business."  Near as I can tell, it only means "friends and family."

So here we need to know what you mean by "visitor." Do you mean having
friends or relatives drop in? Or do you men the number of people who
pass through the doors for any reason?

Second, I would think that the numbers are going to be more dependent
on the type of business rather than the number of employees.

If you are including "business" visitors and not just casual visitors,
imagine a busy restaurant with 20 employees. They might seat 200-300
people in one evening, whereas a manufacturing facility with 1200
employees may only see 20 visitors in a day.

If you only mean "casual" visitors, imagine a law firm of 12 people
compared to a McDonalds with the same number on staff.  You can be
sure more people are showing up to visit their friends working at
McDonalds than are going up to the 23rd floor to visit their attorney
friend.

I could be off base here, but I really don’t think that there is going
to be any correlation between number of employees and number of
visitors.

Let us know if you can think of any way to refine what you are looking
for in order to get the results you're after.  If you can do that,
then I'm sure one of the researchers here will be able to help you.

Thanks!

-K~

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Clarification of Question by john11111-ga on 05 Jul 2003 04:56 PDT

Thanks K,

First questions: By Visitors, I mean the number of people who pass
through the doors for any reason, as long as they are NOT employees of
the same company based in another location.

Second question: I see your point.  I think there is a correlation
between employees and size, within an line of business.  But might not
be as important as the line of business.

I am open to suggestions about how to characterize.  I am trying to
segment US businesses.  May have to segment by Line of Business as
well as size.  You can see that my size segmentation is pretty crude. 
In the end I need to be able to link visitors per location to some
sort of business segmentation and sizing of segments.

Does this help?

John