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Part of this is that IT is viewed as a cost center (well, because it is), and often "owns" the expense of issuing laptops. IT's objective is to ship you a lapto

Part of this is that IT is viewed as a cost center (well, because it is), and often "owns" the expense of issuing laptops. IT's objective is to ship you a laptop that will adequately run the software you need to perform your job duties. How efficiently you perform them becomes a problem for you and your manager.

swagasaurus-rex 5y ago
A company's job is to provide a service or sell a product. The idea that doing that is a "cost" that needs to be reduced is ass-backwards. Bean counters will, by contrast, rarely cut their own budgets because they control the budget.
joshstrange 5y ago
I understand the basic reasons why but anyone who actually examines this has to come to the conclusion that it's a good idea to issue sub-par tech is penny wise and pound foolish. Heck, for developer satisfaction alone I think it's good idea to upgrade them yearly or every 2 years at most. Cycle those machines through your org or resell them. The depreciation lost in resale is tiny compared to increased efficiency and how happy your devs are.
- ehutch79 5y ago
  There's no where in the ledgers to record employee happiness
- spamizbad 5y ago
  In this case we aren't even talking about developers who are struggling with slow computers: Even generic office workers struggle with slow machines and it impacts their productivity. I'm not defending the practice and I am firmly in the "High performance orgs require people to have the best tools you can reasonably buy"
908B64B197 5y ago
> well, because it is Is it? Without IT can a business even run? > and often "owns" the expense of issuing laptops. That's just accounting done wrong. The correct way to do accounting around internal IT is to have IT bill projects/departments for their use.
- spamizbad 5y ago
  You're right but sadly neither of us really shape business culture.

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Part of this is that IT is viewed as a cost center (well, because it is), and often "owns" the expense of issuing laptops. IT's objective is to ship you a lapto

by spamizbad 5y ago

swagasaurus-rex 5y ago
A company's job is to provide a service or sell a product. The idea that doing that is a "cost" that needs to be reduced is ass-backwards. Bean counters will, by contrast, rarely cut their own budgets because they control the budget.
joshstrange 5y ago
I understand the basic reasons why but anyone who actually examines this has to come to the conclusion that it's a good idea to issue sub-par tech is penny wise and pound foolish. Heck, for developer satisfaction alone I think it's good idea to upgrade them yearly or every 2 years at most. Cycle those machines through your org or resell them. The depreciation lost in resale is tiny compared to increased efficiency and how happy your devs are.
- ehutch79 5y ago
  There's no where in the ledgers to record employee happiness
- spamizbad 5y ago
  In this case we aren't even talking about developers who are struggling with slow computers: Even generic office workers struggle with slow machines and it impacts their productivity. I'm not defending the practice and I am firmly in the "High performance orgs require people to have the best tools you can reasonably buy"
908B64B197 5y ago
> well, because it is Is it? Without IT can a business even run? > and often "owns" the expense of issuing laptops. That's just accounting done wrong. The correct way to do accounting around internal IT is to have IT bill projects/departments for their use.
- spamizbad 5y ago
  You're right but sadly neither of us really shape business culture.