Increase Productivity by 15%

How much would it be worth if you could increase the productivity of all of your employees by 15% with an

Advanced Telecom Services found that giving employees two monitors has increased its productivity.

investment of a few hundred dollars per employee?

That’s just what Advanced Telecom Services did by providing all of its employees with two computer monitors.  CEO Bret Dunlap said it would increase productivity by 30%.  I’m not sure that I buy that it’s 30%, but I’ll go with 15%.

My friend Jill works at a Philadelphia mortgage company and she has three monitors on her desk.  When I first saw it, I must admit that I thought it looked cool, but I didn’t really see the value of it at the time.  She said it had greatly improved productivity where she works, except for the occasional Facebook time waster that some employees were doing.

If you spend time using tools like Word or Excel and email, then toggle back and forth to the internet, you know it gets confusing with so many applications opened on one monitor.  Consider that when you need information from the internet for a report.  You need to open the browser and bring up the tab, then minimize the tab to put the information in your article.  Now, you need more information.  Same thing all over again. 

By having two monitors, you don’t need to mess with the tabs at all.  Just drag the information from one monitor to the other. 

Besides, the internet can really suck you in.  There’s so much information on it that you can spend literally hours on it, doing productive work, but forgetting why you went there in the first place.  Having two monitors eliminates that.

If you are looking to make an investment in the productivity of your company, then having multiple monitors is one you’ll want to make.  And, it looks cool and your employees will love you for it.

Just don’t let the young employees have Facebook on one screen all day.

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