07.01.11 - Are Slow IT Systems Costing You Money?

IT has become an integral part of the workplace and as business systems develop, users also continue to expect more from their computers and are on average spending over 10 minutes per day waiting on slow IT systems.

Based on this 10 minutes per day for a single employee, they are wasting 50 minutes per week and over 40 hours per year waiting on slow IT systems.

If we add a monetary value to this and assume the single employee is paid an hourly rate of £10.00, equates to slow IT costing your company £50 per week and £400 per year.

Four hundred pounds may not sound a lot, but lets apply this principle to more employees:-

5 employees waiting on slow IT could cost £2,000 per year
10 employees waiting on slow IT could cost £4,000 per year
15 employees waiting on slow IT could cost £6,000 per year
20 employees waiting on slow IT could cost £8,000 per year
50 employees waiting on slow IT could cost £20,000 per year

Why not apply these principles to your IT system and calculate how much slow IT systems are costing you?

More recently a client appoached us and advised that some users were spending upto fourty five minutes each morning waiting for their five year old computers to logon to their server, due to the size of their roaming profiles. 

We upgraded five of the problematic computers to Dell OptiPlex' running the latest Intel Core2 Processors with Windows 7 Professional as the operating system, which reduced the logon time from fourty five minutes to less than sixty seconds.

Based soley on time saved logging on to their computer, the client was able to benefit from saving over £1000 per user.  We anticipate that the savings are even greater when we take into account general use of their computer.

Therefore, if you think that slow IT is having an impact on your business and costing you money, contact Qubix Technology today on 0117 957 4250 to find out how we can save you money and improve employee efficiency.