Quote:One in four office workers reckons that the best way to get a new work computer is to smash up the one they have - either that or to take it down the junk shop themselves.

Some 40 per cent of office workers complain that their aging workplace PC hurts their productivity and many are tempted to resort to extreme measures to get an upgrade, including taking a hammer to to aging beast on the desktop.

Of some 3,000 office workers questioned across the UK, France and Germany, those in Britain  are forced to use the most outdated workplace computers. The average computer in a British office was found to be over five years old, compared to German businesses, where the average age of a computer is only two years and seven months.

The French, however,  were most likely resort to breaking their office PC, seeing it as the quickest way to get an upgrade.

Three times as many French respondents as Germans believe deliberately breaking their hardware is the best option, with the majority of Germans trusting their bosses to get them an upgrade when the time was right.

British workers become particularly frustrated when their work computers fail to match the performance of the PCs they’ve grown accustomed to at home. Some 40 per cent of British office workers surveyed have newer computers at home than they do at work – with those work computers being, on average, two years older.

Office employees who reported their work computer was older than their home computer were twice as likely to think that breaking a device is the best way to get an upgrade out of their employer.

Quote:Some ten per cent of UK workers said they’d even resort to buying new parts for their work devices themselves to perform their own upgrade; particularly those who work in smaller organisations. .  

Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/4/12/workers...z1JMTtrmpf


Are you an office worker with a shabby PC?
For me, laptop is a C2D with 2GB RAM.  Desktop is a C2D E8400 with 2GB RAM too.
I don't clog it with poo poo, though some stuff in the standard install image make the thing slow.  Generally though, I find the network being the bottleneck, rather than the computer.  Then again, I'm more tech oriented than the majority of office staff.

Careful.  Either computer gets replaced or you get replaced..

Personally am a bit critical about the survey.  I mean, if I asked someone unhappy about their computer whether they'd smash it to get an upgrade, vs whether they'd actually do it...

Alot of PC are going to be smashed tomorrwowwww!!


Good idee