I work for a small nanotechnology start-up, and when I started here 8 months ago, no one turned off any of the computers. Granted, half of the computers used during the day were personal laptops that VPs and execs would turn off and bring home with them (I'm a big fan of this, aside from the security concerns).
I'm a green-nerd, so I ask what's the deal with leaving the computers on, and everyone spouted off funny superstitious mumbo-jumbo about how they've never done it before, maybe it's bad for the computers, they need to be updated with the latest microsoft spyware, etc. So I just started turning them off at night, and nothing's happened. Nothing's gone wrong. (These are also people who don't turn off lights for fear of cockroaches, which, let me tell you, I've never seen). Some employees do access the network at night/on weekends, so we simply leave the server on 24/7.
Now my employees say that they always used to turn the lights and computers off at night;). Oh the precision of memory.
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I work for a small nanotechnology start-up, and when I started here 8 months ago, no one turned off any of the computers. Granted, half of the computers used during the day were personal laptops that VPs and execs would turn off and bring home with them (I'm a big fan of this, aside from the security concerns). I'm a green-nerd, so I ask what's the deal with leaving the computers on, and everyone spouted off funny superstitious mumbo-jumbo about how they've never done it before, maybe it's bad for the computers, they need to be updated with the latest microsoft spyware, etc. So I just started turning them off at night, and nothing's happened. Nothing's gone wrong. (These are also people who don't turn off lights for fear of cockroaches, which, let me tell you, I've never seen). Some employees do access the network at night/on weekends, so we simply leave the server on 24/7. Now my employees say that they always used to turn the lights and computers off at night ;). Oh the precision of memory.