Waiting On Computers Wasting Work Time
Posted July 10, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Waiting for your computer to boot up or software to load isn’t just frustrating, it’s wasting a valuable company resource: your time. As software needs grow and computers age, more systems freeze, requiring constant restarts.
A new survey commissioned by Staples shows most of us spend an average of up to five minutes every day just waiting for computers to start up. Those minutes can quickly add up, says director of merchandising for technology at Staples Rick Atkinson.
“Multiply that lost time by the number of business days in a year and you’re looking at upwards of two full work days spent waiting for the computer to finish booting up,” says Atkinson. “That’s valuable time that could be spent in much more productive ways, not to mention the frustration factor that goes with it.”
The poll, conducted by Angus-Reid Strategies, found 52 per cent of respondents wait anywhere from one to five minutes each day for their computer to start up. When it came to downloads, almost half of the respondents, 40 per cent, say they spend up to 30 minutes a week waiting and 26 per cent spend hours.
“Today people expect a lot from their computers,” says the Staples rep. “The biggest obstacle to computer speed is not having enough processing capability to handle today’s leading edge software applications and that is what leads to a sluggish computing experience.”
