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Started by Ali E Aydar
Mon, 14 Mar 1994 03:18
Re: Study Claims Mac Users More Productive Than Windows 03/10/94
Author: Ali E Aydar
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 03:18
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 03:18
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> "Business have spent millions of dollars over the past decade > installing PCs, with very little proof of their increasing > productivity," explained Dr David Nagel, vice president and > general manager of Apple's Applesoft division. I'm sorry sir, but I think you might be a little mistaken. Businesses used to be doing all their work with paper and pencil and typewritier. You're trying to tell me that buying a PC didn't increase their productivity!!??!! I do believe the study is correct, but not to this extent!!! Ali
Re: Study Claims Mac Users More Productive Than Windows 03/10/94
Author: Michael Ward
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:19
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:19
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>I'm sorry sir, but I think you might be a little mistaken. Businesses >used to be doing all their work with paper and pencil and typewritier. >You're trying to tell me that buying a PC didn't increase their >productivity!!??!! I do believe the study is correct, but not to this >extent!!! People used to spend X hours doing their work. Now they spend X/2 hours doing their work AND X/2 hours trying to figure out how to make the damned computer work. Net result: no gain in productivity. -- Michael Ward mward@netcom.com
Re: Study Claims Mac Users More Productive Than Windows 03/10/94
Author: Garrett Pelton
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:47
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:47
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In article <mwardCMnuK7.JDI@netcom.com>, mward@netcom.com (Michael Ward) writes: |> >I'm sorry sir, but I think you might be a little mistaken. Businesses |> >used to be doing all their work with paper and pencil and typewritier. |> >You're trying to tell me that buying a PC didn't increase their |> >productivity!!??!! I do believe the study is correct, but not to this |> >extent!!! |> |> People used to spend X hours doing their work. Now they spend X/2 hours |> doing their work AND X/2 hours trying to figure out how to make the damned |> computer work. Net result: no gain in productivity. |> I don't believe this is the right reasoning. The issue is that the "quality" (at least the superficial quality) of the work has gone up. To paraphrase Bob Kraut in talking about the similar situation in housework. The time spent doing housework has not gone down in the last fifty years, even with all the new conviences. The time instead has gone to making the percieved quality of the work better. Perhaps it used to take 4 hours every 4 weeks to do a load of laundry. Now it takes an hour a week, but you get clean underwear every day. Is this an advance? In the business environment, the amount of time making pictures right, making spreadsheets more precise, and rewriting to make memos more precise means the productivity is no higher. The accuracy of the information is also not necessarily improved with the increase in precision.
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