Older PCs Diminish Employee Productivity

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By Rich Wagoner, CITP.CPA | Principal, Director of Technology

When improving employee productivity is among the top business priorities of a small business, it is natural to assume that the businesses explore all options to achieve their priorities. However, in the daily grind of work sometimes cost reduction solutions staring in their face get overlooked unless someone demonstrates it to them. One such important opportunity is replacing older PCs with new PCs to avoid number of hours lost due to PC repairs.

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The study reveals that an average of 42 hours is lost due to an older computer being repaired by either internal IT staff or reseller or even friends & family. Slightly over 36 percent of small businesses have PCs 4+ years old and these PCs create many different types of problems for the both the owner and the employees.

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In addition, small businesses reported that they frequently experience Application and System Performance, Malware attacks and Connectivity related issues with PCs that are 4 years or older. Although it is difficult to quantify the impact of lost productivity due to these issues unlike measureable and quantifiable impact due to repairs, they also contribute to significant diminishing of productivity and employee satisfaction.

The preceding article came from a white paper on TechAisle.com (http://www.techaisle.com/techaisle-white-paper-small-business-repair-or-replace-pc.pdf).

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Techaisle is a global SMB ICT Market Research and Industry Analyst organization. Techaisle was founded on the premise that Go-to-Market strategies require insightful research, flexible data, and deeper analysis. Understanding the value of data consistency across markets to inform strategic planning, Techaisle has remained holistic in its approach to Insights and provides globally consistent SMB and Channels analysis across geographies. To achieve its objectives Techaisle conducts surveys with SMBs and channels to understand market trends, opportunities, buying behavior, purchase intent, and IT priorities. Besides covering emerging technologies such as SMB cloud computing, managed services, mobility, social media usage, virtualization, business intelligence, big data, networking its channel research coverage provides in-depth understanding of resellers and channel partners globally. Techaisle’s insights are built on a strong data-driven foundation and its analysts are conversant with both primary research and industry knowledge, which is a rare combination. Techaisle offers its clients: Syndicated Research, Custom Consulting, Market Forecast, Competitive Intelligence, Segmentation and Predictive Analytics services. For more information on Techaisle or its global products/services, please visit www.techaisle.com, and our analysts’ blogs at www.techaisle.com/blog

Contact:

Rich Wagoner, CITP.CPA | Principal, Director of Technology| 317.240.4400 | rwagoner@greenwaltcpas.com