by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good news: the rising cost of computers is reducing waste in the office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Consider the cost of a computer. At one time, hardware was 95% of the cost while software was 5%. Then, a few years later, hardware was 5% and software was 95%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, the cost of hardware and software fell so low, that the primary cost was waste in the office. A dozen people sat in a meeting. Each person cost several hundred dollars an hour (salary plus benefits). Let’s see, that’s $200 per person times 12 is $2,400 to decide which computer to buy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then someone else spends an hour filling out the forms, then the form has to be signed by three people who put it in their computer inbox, then the order is placed. Then the box arrives at the loading dock, someone puts it a store room. Someone takes it from the store room, unpacks it, puts it on a table and tests it (don’t want to install a computer that doesn’t work), then carries it down the hall, puts it on someone’s desk, then the technician and the user spend half an hour ensuring their account is correct and the user can see the right file folders and such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All this processing of the order and everything that happens before the $500 computer is usable consumes another $5,000. Hmm, $500 computer, $2,400 meeting, $5,000 shipping and handling. That is $500 computer and $7,400 waste in the office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Computer 6%, waste 94%. Not too good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news is the cost of the computer has risen. We haven’t see anything like this since, well, I don’t think since ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now the computer costs $700 and the waste is still $7,400. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Computer 9%, waste 91%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hey! Waste is down as a percentage of the total! THAT GREAT NEWS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Funny how math works, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Good news: the rising cost of computers is reducing waste in the office. Consider the cost of a computer. At one time, hardware was 95% of the cost while software was 5%. Then, a few years later, hardware was 5% and software was 95%. Then, the cost of hardware and software fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,238,83,9,3],"tags":[322,240,200,132,163,126],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-analysis","category-computing","category-management","category-technology","tag-accountability","tag-analysis","tag-computing","tag-management","tag-money","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4735,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}