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- From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.computers,comp.lang.pascal,alt.cobol
- Subject: Re: net.views - mainframe programmers in an open systems world
- Message-ID: <Af1h6OS00aw_012msT@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 12:39:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.Af1h6OS00aw_012msT
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- Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- frankj@ifi.uio.no (Frank Tore Johansen) writes:
- > OK, then. Has anyone ever researched in how much time is wasted
- > reading/posting news compared to what is gained from it?
-
- SBT Accounting Systems of Sausalito, CA did a study which found that
- computer 'futzing' in general costs American businesses nearly $100
- billion per year
- among various findings:
- - 25 million personal computer users every year in the US spend 5
- billion hours per year fiddling with their computers at work, which is
- 5.1 hours per week for every pc in the country
- - 4 percent of clerical and secretarial labor is taken up with just
- trying to get the software to work
- - men tend to tinker more than women, by about 19%
- - women tend to obtain advice from experts and coworkers about making
- the computers work, whereas men tend to get advice from the vendors
- themselves
-