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FWIW, I do believe the monitor was put into an vacant office that traveling employees use, but it wasn't an immediate need or something along those lines. It's more so my manager is really against me having the second monitor thinking it will slow me down and is wasteful. I even asked him did he use one before, because I feel like most people if they tried it would see how brilliant it is, but he said he did and he hates it.
I have three monitors at work and I need more!! I feel 5 times slower when I have to work on just one screen again. Spending the $300 per employee to have extra monitors is totally worth it. Probably make all the money back within a month with the productivity gain.
I'll sell you all the 17 inch monitors you could want for $250, each you'll save $50 a monitor! That's after I buy them for $75 each and pocket the profit. Monitors are cheap and any modern desktop should be able to support two monitors. If it's a laptop, you'll need a docking station usually.
I think you will have to do better than that. I use a 24" LED monitor at home that I paid $279 for two years ago at Freddie Krogers.
Just about any off the shelf computer nowadays has enough RAM and CPU to handle multiple linked spreadsheets and a database. The only person I know who uses 6 monitors does video production on a high end workstation, but 2 large monitors should be considered a normal workspace.
I'm curious about this. I work in accounting and I've been begging for a second monitor since I started. Someone else finally got a new monitor, and I was given his old monitor. Dual monitor bliss. Well, for a very short time because my manager thought that a second monitor was completely worthless and just wasteful. He thought having two monitors would actually slow you down... I got the monitor taken away...
But that made me curious. I've always felt a two monitor setup for any computer usage, especially work, is EXTREMELY beneficial. Doesn't matter if you're a programmer or an office assistant, there is lots of benefits to be had. But I wanted to see what other people think. Does anyone else think having a second monitor is wasteful or useless? I would disagree.
I am a computer programmer who has two monitors at work. Having code or a spreadsheet open on one screen and email open on another is extremely convenient and permits copy and paste easy. I sometimes wish that I had three screens. Two is a good compromise. One large screen that permits two or more different apps open side by side time is good too.
I work in digital marketing focused on social media, content creation, and website editing helpdesk roles. Without two monitors, I would be toast. I could really use a 3rd, especially since there's a social media dashboard I keep up practically 24/7. Even here at home I keep the dashboard up in the background because I unfortunately do not have a 2nd monitor here.
It is MUCH harder to be effective when I do not see in the moment updates.
Yeah, it's not wasteful if you need to run multiple apps, in fact it's less wasteful because you're quicker to keep extra apps open all the time. I once had a job where I needed to potentially access 3 different bosses' Outlook calendars. Umbrella-ing them under my Outlook was not possible because that made the app so sluggish nothing was getting done. My mother would call this "penny wise and pound foolish" on the company's part.
At my job I have up to 5 different programs up because we multi-task so much (customer service), not including email, which I open and close throughout the day. So, yes, for me two monitors is beneficial, although it's a big pain in the butt in other ways.
FWIW, I do believe the monitor was put into an vacant office that traveling employees use, but it wasn't an immediate need or something along those lines. It's more so my manager is really against me having the second monitor thinking it will slow me down and is wasteful. I even asked him did he use one before, because I feel like most people if they tried it would see how brilliant it is, but he said he did and he hates it.
I just don't understand.
I had a manager once who just couldn't understand why anyone needed any feature he didn't use himself. He used to complain about all the features in Word that he never used. No matter how hard we tried to explain, he couldn't grasp that just because he saw the computer as a fancy typewriter, didn't mean the secretary, who sat about 10 feet away, didn't use a whole lot more features managing the correspondence. Heck, he didn't even understand that saving the document meant you didn't have to retype the whole thing each time.
I couldn't function without two monitors--plain and simple. Productivity goes in the tank if I'm using my laptop in a working meeting away from my second monitor. Not everyone NEEDS one, but I damned sure wouldn't take one surplus one AWAY from someone. Where I work, they don't even inventory mice, keyboards, or monitors, that's how ubiquitous they are any more.
Heck, I don't work with Computers, but have two running all the time with dual 24 inch Monitors. I surf with one, can run You Tube or anything else on another and use another computer for data and communications monitoring and equipment control. And that's all Hobby, so there is no reason a business can't look ahead and try to improve use of an employees time. It helps and makes life easier. My third computer in my Hobby Shop is even running two monitors at times. One for video on a Zeiss Microscope and a second for real time comparisons, plus data entry or lookup. BIG Time savers.
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Monitors are cheap and any modern desktop should be able to support two monitors. If it's a laptop, you'll need a docking station usually.
