By Mina Shaghaghi
Nearly half of all U.S. workers leave their PCs on overnight. Here,
three urgent reasons to turn off before you head out:
1. Hackers spend their waking hours prowling for
vulnerable computers. Don't assume your firm has up-to-date
security -- a third of small businesses don't.
2.
Your computer is a carbon-spewing beast. Computers left on
standby will emit 20 million tons of carbon dioxide this year -
roughly the same amount as 4 million cars.
3. Powering down
may save your job. U.S. companies waste $2.8 billion annually
keeping computers on after hours -- in tough times, that's a
heck of a lot of salaries.
Reprinted with Permission of Hearst Communications, Inc.
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Posted by Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:13am PDT
Report AbuseWe are actually required to shut our computers off at the end of the day... unless there is some software upgrade that IT must do manually.
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Posted by Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:29am PDT
Report AbuseMany companies require employees leave their computers on at night, that's when they push out all the updates.
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Posted by Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:05am PDT
Report AbuseWe have started mandating that as well, I did not know about the cardon output either, wild! I am going to start shutting mine down at home as well instead of standby!
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Posted by Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:17am PDT
Report AbuseI agree with Babbalou... we leave ours up at night for updates and maintenance. I know it probably sucks a lot of energy from our building but we also send info between branches so it's hard to get something that works from that standpoint (timezones, work hours, and such)
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