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Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive?
prostoalex writes "If your company uses 17" or 19" monitors, 30" monitors will make the employees more productive, Apple-sponsored research says. MacWorld reports: "Pfeiffer's testing showed time savings of 13.63 seconds when moving files between folders using the larger screen — 15.7 seconds compared to 29.3 seconds on the 17-in. monitor — for a productivity gain of 46.45 percent. The testing showed a 65.09 percent productivity gain when dragging and dropping between images — a task that took 6.4 seconds on the larger monitor compared to 18.3 seconds using the smaller screen. And cutting and pasting cells from Excel spreadsheets resulted in a 51.31 percent productivity gain — a task that took 20.7 seconds on the larger monitor versus 42.6 seconds on the smaller screen."" Calling such task-specific speed jolts "productivity gains" seems optimistic unless some measure of overall producivity backs up that claim, but don't mention that on the purchase order request.
"Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive?"
yes.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
The time I need to type mv file /some/new/destination/ may depend on the size of the keyboard, but surely not on the size of the screen.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
...what you all think regarding whether it's truly a jump in productivity or not.
*copies link, sends to boss.*
Sure, I'll agree that big screens can make one more productive. In fact I'd rather have two big monitors than one attached to my machine. More real estate is a good thing.
But the given example, of dragging and dropping files, has got to be the stupidest thing I've read today, and I'm already at work.
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
This way productivity will go down, because it adds the time needed to circumvent the ban to the time used to browse Slashdot!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I spit on this male-sponsored study. Size doesn't matter...it's what you do with it that counts.
would make sneakily watching porn a lot more worthwhile.
Summation 2
Anybody that takes 29.3 to do a file-copy operation needs treatment for their Parkinson's disease, NOT a bigger monitor.
In other news, a study sponsored by Phillip-Morris says smoking makes you look cooler, thus attracting the opposite sex.
Res publica non dominetur
I thought it was a fancy way of saying he makes carts...
This guy's the limit!
50% and 1%? So you're saying there's a 51% speedup! Excellent! I'll forward your request right down to purchasing and you'll have two monitors on your desk on Monday. I hope to see 102% improvement!
Signed,
Rich
(your manager)
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I have spent four-five hours trying to get 2 screens hooked up to my linux system. So far no luck. So I figure I'll spend at least 2 more hours.
I have the 2 screens but so far I haven't been any more productive.
The screen with "Check Signal Cable" bouncing around, isn't really doing me any good right now.
He who said 1,000,000 monkeys on 1,000,000 typewriters would eventually type the great novel, never saw an AOL chat room
I thought he took pictures of cars... *damn*, right when my dream job was at my fingertips.. stupid maps!
Don't anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.
You should worry, I thought race relations meant you worked for Formula 1, hanging out with the blonde chicks, top drivers, parking the F1 cars after the race, that sort of thing.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
I'm a cartographer myself too and somebody did once tell me she thought I took photos of cars for a living... Doesn't sound like a bad job though, maybe I did make the wrong choice... ;)
*at least here in the US
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
SHUT UP! Everybody just SHUT UP! This is NOT the time to examine or question these results! This is the time to show your boss this scientific, scholarly article and get him to decide to give you a great honking big expensive Apple screen!
Now Sshhh! Sshhh! Quiet.
Print. Walk to office, walk through door, show boss article, exit through door, walk back to desk, sit down, go back to reading slashdot.
You had to swallow it to smuggle it in, didn't you?
Yo mama so fake, she failed the Turing Test.