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Story: Lazy employees cost businesses dear over PC usage
Posted by: Peter Shaw (Monday 9 October 2006, 11:30 AM)
Our hardware failure rate has reduced substantially since we stopped turning our computers off at night during the week. This is undoubtably less than the electricity cost.
I also detect a cost saving in reduced room heating bills.
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Story: Lazy employees cost businesses dear over PC usage
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Incredibly biased article.
Many PC's are left on o... Roberto Maietta -
it takes me 15 minutes to be up and running.... lucas -
Employees do not have a choice when it c... John Robertson -
One answer would be to remove all computers and re... Alan
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Or people could at least remember to turn the... Chris Rankin
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Create a .bat file and put Shutdown.exe -f -s in i... Ravinder Gill
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A bit one-sided, but a very fair point.
Many comp... Richard Pettigrew
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It is my companys policy (BAE Systems) that all PC... Anonymous
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Our hardware failure rate has reduced substantiall... Peter Shaw -
My onsite computers are now powered via a pwer dis... John Lewcock
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Thanks for your comments - it's always good to get... Richard Thurston
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Richard, your defense ( a busy environment ),... Roberto Maietta
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When behavior change is necessary... jenniferkwoofter
