Employees waste four weeks a year due to slow and outdated tech, finds report
That's £2,100 per staffer down the drain annually
Slow and outdated IT costs businesses four whole working weeks per employee per year, to the tune of £2,100 for every person, a new report from Sharp has found.
The biggest drain contributing to this figure is searching for files on servers, which accounts for an average of 23 minutes per day and can be attributed to slow search functions.
The total waste is apparently around 40 minutes every day for each staff member, which means 167 hours per month are lost to bad technology.
Of the 1,000 UK office workers Sharp asked, 80 per cent said their office was "out of date when it comes to technology".
On top of this, 64 per cent believed that "if their office had better technology... they would be more productive", while 19 per cent said an office-wide upgrade in tech would stop them looking for a new job elsewhere.
Stuart Skykes, managing director of Sharp UK, suggested that "this dead time can mean lost opportunities, lost profits and even lost employees".
"Businesses must wake up to the importance of connected technologies that work in sync with their employees' changing needs and allow them to get the best out of their team, as well as making for a more motivated, more productive workplace," he continued.
Recently, on a Computing web seminar, Nimble Storage UK and Ireland systems manager Rich Fenton argued that disk slowdown can't be easily tackled simply by throwing more storage at a problem:
"Traditional disks are great for capacity. But from a performance perspective, they're not so great," said Fenton.
"It's very hard to solve a performance problem with traditional disks, and that's where flash comes in.
"Using a combination of disk and flash-based storage enables you to provide a balance between cost and performance."