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Of course, what twit IT would recommend Microsoft to gently suck any kind of productivity or profit from a firm. Self-serving job-security-seeking It support staff maybe. Who else. Microsoft is such a waste of budget.]]>Mar 29th 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/25/idle-computers-cost-companies-2-8-billion-annually/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/25/idle-computers-cost-companies-2-8-billion-annually/
Though my memory is hazy and the details of the story are long since forgotten, I remember reading some time back about a study of the costs involved in having employees turn off their computers before heading home for the day, costs including (to name but two) lost productivity and employees' salaries. An automated shutdown would eliminate the first, and having to pay only a single employee to turn on the network the next day virtually eliminates the second, even in quite small organizations.

I mention that story because purely in terms of direct costs, we have to compare the two -- the costs from leaving computers on versus the costs from shutting them down. Of course, such a comparison ignores any environmental impacts and costs resulting from those, granted.]]>Mar 30th 2009 1:49AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/25/idle-computers-cost-companies-2-8-billion-annually/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/25/idle-computers-cost-companies-2-8-billion-annually/Mar 31st 2009 3:17AM