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Is All This Extra Tech Actually Making Your Team More Productive?
You should want your team to be ready and able to accomplish as much as possible. So, when a team member approaches you with a request for a better laptop or a dual-monitor setup and the wish to do more with their time, you should agree. However, there may be that little voice in the back of your head, whispering, “Was that a wise investment?”It can be hard to balance the need for employee satisfaction with your budgetary restrictions, but it must be done. Let’s go over the considerations you need to make… as well as the pitfalls that must be avoided.Your Existing Technology May Be Holding You
You should want your team to be ready and able to accomplish as much as possible. So, when a team member approaches you with a request for a better laptop or a dual-monitor setup and the wish to do more with their time, you should agree. However, there may be that little voice in the back of your head, whispering, “Was that a wise investment?”It can be hard to balance the need for employee satisfaction with your budgetary restrictions, but it must be done. Let’s go over the considerations you need to make… as well as the pitfalls that must be avoided.Your Existing Technology May Be Holding You Back More Than You’d ThinkWhether your employees are requesting new or additional technology or not, you must maintain your technology over time, upgrading it as necessary. Exactly why it is so vital becomes clear with a few simple calculations.Let’s assume that an older computer burns through an extra five minutes of the user’s time every day, just because of slow loading times, restarts, and laggy boot times. That’s obviously frustrating, but it only gets worse when you start looking at it on a macro scale.If an employee works about 250 days each year and loses five minutes each day, they lose 1,250 minutes each year. This equals 20.8 hours, half of a work week. If this impacts your whole team, that’s suddenly months down the drain.So, ensuring that your team has the technology that reliably works really does make a difference.The benefits don’t stop there, either—back in the 1920s, studies indicated that productivity could be measurably boosted if workers felt their needs were being noticed and met. Essentially, the study demonstrated that prioritizing the well-being of a workforce was sufficient to motivate that workforce to perform more effectively. This means that simply providing your team with new equipment can help boost productivity.How Modern Productivity Can Be MeasuredThere are a few key signs that your productivity has improved, if you know where to look. Here are some places to get you started:Support tickets - The number of support tickets that come in for specific issues can indicate if productivity-sapping problems have been solved. For instance, if you’ve suddenly received far fewer tickets concerning Internet connectivity issues after you’ve updated your router, you’ve improved productivity by taking away a problem.Task time - If a task took 25 minutes to complete, and it suddenly takes 12 minutes after new tech has been introduced, that’s an opportunity to consider how your productivity has been improved.Employee feedback - Simply ask your team members if they’ve noticed anything changing after you’ve made improvements.We Can Help You Manage Your Hardware!Instead of having to make the decision when the duress of a desktop conking out or a server’s hum fading into silence is adding pressure, why not plan for it ahead of time so the panic doesn’t have to set in? Argentum IT will be there to help you design a predictable schedule to refresh your hardware, allowing for more effective budgeting and standardized IT across your business.We’re dedicated to helping businesses invest in the correct tools for their needs and ensure that their teams are able to maximize what these tools can do. Let us help you next. Give us a call at (502) 473-6407 to get started.
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Budgeting for IT in a 10–75 Person Business: How to Avoid Surprise Costs
There’s a particular kind of IT invoice that ruins a month. The server died. It was seven years old. Replacing it costs four figures in hardware and more than that in labor, it has to happen this week, and nobody budgeted a cent for it. The frustrating part is that it was entirely predictable. That
There’s a particular kind of IT invoice that ruins a month. The server died. It was seven years old. Replacing it costs four figures in hardware and more than that in labor, it has to happen this week, and nobody budgeted a cent for it. The frustrating part is that it was entirely predictable. That
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Top Managed IT & IT/OT Support Services: A Manufacturer's Buyer's Guide
Nonprofit IT Budget Planning and How to Control Technology Costs
Learn how to plan a nonprofit IT budget, estimate annual technology costs, reduce unnecessary spending, and prepare for equipment and software expenses.
Learn how to plan a nonprofit IT budget, estimate annual technology costs, reduce unnecessary spending, and prepare for equipment and software expenses.
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What Executive Leaders Should Expect From a Managed Firewall Service
What Executive Leaders Should Expect From a Managed Firewall Service For many organizations, firewall security begins with a purchase.
What Executive Leaders Should Expect From a Managed Firewall Service For many organizations, firewall security begins with a purchase.
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What IT Support Costs a Houston Real Estate Firm (2026)
Fully managed IT support for a Houston real estate firm typically costs between $125 and ... Learn More
Fully managed IT support for a Houston real estate firm typically costs between $125 and ... Learn More
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How to Switch IT Providers Without Losing a Day of Work
Switching IT providers without downtime: check your contract, secure your admin accounts, plan an overlap and know what the first 30 days should include.
Switching IT providers without downtime: check your contract, secure your admin accounts, plan an overlap and know what the first 30 days should include.
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Denied! The Missing MFA Logs and Backup Tests That Are Costing Florida Businesses Their Insurance Payouts
The Easy Way to Save Documents as PDFs (No Scanner Required!)
A surprising amount of paper gets printed for just one reason: to save a physical copy or sign a document, only to immediately be scanned right back into digital format.If you’re stuck in this wasteful "print-and-scan" loop, a much faster, cleaner solution is already built into your computer: printing to PDF.
A surprising amount of paper gets printed for just one reason: to save a physical copy or sign a document, only to immediately be scanned right back into digital format.If you’re stuck in this wasteful "print-and-scan" loop, a much faster, cleaner solution is already built into your computer: printing to PDF.
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Shopping for EDR by Brand Name? 5 Things to Pin Down Before Rollout
Direct Answer: Managed EDR puts detection software on every device and a monitoring team behind it. Before you buy, confirm partner tier, after-hours response, your real device count, and the rollout plan. Someone handed you a directive: get EDR on every machine. Maybe it came from your insurance carrier, a grant condition, or a board
Direct Answer: Managed EDR puts detection software on every device and a monitoring team behind it. Before you buy, confirm partner tier, after-hours response, your real device count, and the rollout plan. Someone handed you a directive: get EDR on every machine. Maybe it came from your insurance carrier, a grant condition, or a board
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Contact Form Spam: How to Stop It Without Losing Real Leads
Contact form spam wastes time and hides real leads. Learn how bots and people submit it, which defenses work, and how reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha compare.
Contact form spam wastes time and hides real leads. Learn how bots and people submit it, which defenses work, and how reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha compare.
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