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PCs Use More Sick Days Than People

Posted by michael on from the pcs-need-nyquil-too dept.

lunarscape writes "ZDNet is running an article about the 'absentee' rate of PCs in various UK workplaces. According to the article, while the average employee was out sick seven days a year, the average PC was inoperable due to a virus nine days a year. The article also discusses junk e-mail's impact on productivity, with one business reporting that 99.84 percent of all incoming mail is spam."

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  1. Re:OS's by dylan_- · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You forgot:

    DOS that guy who has two machine, one running windows that he never touches, and one still running DOS that he does his Real Work on. Mutters under his breath about the good old days when they still had the Novell network in place before that upgrade ("Hah!") to NT...

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  2. Got to be a first... by DnsZero · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Finally, a slashdot article with a strong reason to support installing MS Windows on your work machine!

  3. Re:Yeah its always taking sickies by recursiv · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, they do. I can't believe you didn't know. Seriously. You must be dumb or something.

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