Survey Results on Older PCs
J.Gold Associates produced this comprehensive SME PC Study to help organizations better understand the impact on costs and productivity associated with the use of older, outdated personal computers. Survey responses are from 3,297 responses from 16 different countries and cover a wide variety of topics that affect typical unmanaged small businesses.1 2 3 4 5
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“Employees are up to 29% less productive on PCs that are 5+ years old” is based on a 2018 web-based survey, commissioned by Intel, and conducted by J. Gold Associates, LLC., of 3297 respondents from small business in 16 countries (Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA), to assess the challenges and costs associated with deploying older PCs. This statistic is based on the productivity impairment respondents estimated was attributed to using a 5-year-old PC multiplied by the average amount of time respondents estimated was spent on a PC. To review this statistic and the full report, visit here.
“Every 5 year old computer you have could be costing you up to US$17,000 per year” is based on a 2018 web-based survey, commissioned by Intel, and conducted by J. Gold Associates, LLC., of 3297 respondents from small business in 16 countries (Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA), to assess the challenges and costs associated with deploying older PCs. Survey respondents estimated that for PCs more than 5 years old, employees would be up to 29% less productive – based on an average assumed employee’s salary of US$60,000, the lost productivity cost will amount to US $17,000. To review this statistic and the full report, visit here.
“Employees spend up to 11 hrs. per year just waiting for their computer to boot up” is based on a 2018 web-based survey, commissioned by Intel, and conducted by J.Gold Associates, LLC., of 3297 respondents from small business in 16 countries (Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA), to assess the challenges and costs associated with deploying older PCs. Assuming one start-up per day and using an average start-up time that was calculated by taking the midpoint of the time survey respondents estimated it takes to start up a PC that is more than 5 years old, employees were estimated to spend up to 11 hours a year starting up a 5 year old PC (4.07 minutes start-up x 1 start-up per work day x 5 days a week x 52 weeks a year / 60 (to get hours) x utilization rate of .67 = 11.8 hours per year). To review this statistic and the full report, visit here.