Not every company has the extra cash necessary to operate this way. Providing poor hardware to staff lowers staff productivity and increases error rates. It makes staff tireder and less likely to get innovative insights.
The poor hardware is probably losing the company 30 to 40 percent of each employee's labor cost. So instead of spending an extra $2000 to get a proper computer they are spending $100,000 per computer on lower staff productivity (over the 3-year life of the miserable computer). That's why CFOs need to pay more attention to the bad decisions made by IT. >My brother does database work, and his workplace provides him with a >Dell laptop that he uses at work. His previous jobs gave him desktop >machines to use. He says that having to work on a laptop all day >totally rags him out as opposed to how he used to feel after a day >using a desktop machine. He'd love to have a larger screen for >looking at all those tiny little numbers and letters, but he isn't >going to get that where he currently is employed, so he'll just have >to deal with being exhausted at the end of every day. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
