Researchers found that if you increase the size of your monitor or added on another monitor, your productivity would increase by 40%. If you buy an additional 24″ LCD Screen
to go with your already existing one, your productivity will go up on average 52% above those who use 18″ LCDs.
Researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly people performed tasks like editing a document and copying numbers between spreadsheets while using different computer configurations: one with an 18-inch monitor, one with a 24-inch monitor and with two 20-inch monitors. Their finding: People using the 24-inch screen completed the tasks 52% faster than people who used the 18-inch monitor; people who used the two 20-inch monitors were 44% faster than those with the 18-inch ones. There is an upper limit, however: Productivity dropped off again when people used a 26-inch screen. (The order of the tasks and the order of computer configurations were assigned randomly.)
So if I am doing the math correctly, the 40 hour per week worker would add 20 extra hours of work. This is provided he is both productive during 40 hours AND someone who is on the computer for all that time. So the cost of the additional screen - even at over $400 would more than pay for itself in the first month.
If you were considering justifying it for your home based business, you’d simply calculate how many hours you spend really working on your business. Then multiply that by .50. So if you put in 20 hours per week, you’d squeak out an additional 10 hours with the larger screens. Now, how much is that additional 10 hours per week worth?
Let’s say for argument sake, you are making $10.00 per hour in your side business. That would be an additional $100 per week - or $400 per month
100 x 4 = $400
So your extra monitor would pay for itself in 1 month, give or take.
As someone who does use 2 monitors, I can say two monitors do increase my speed and productivity. Especially when copying from one document to another. Also when doing a complex install or configuration, I can read procedures on one screen and configure on the other. It saves screen minimizing and expanding…
What’s your monitor set up? Do you use more than one? More than two? I’d be interested to know how adding monitors has increased or decreased your productivity.
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译文:
增大你的显示屏——提高你的生产力
研究发现如果你增大你的显示屏或添置另一个显示屏，你的工作效率将提高40%。如果你在原有的基础上再加装一个24寸液晶显示器，你的工作效率与使用18寸液晶显示器相比将平均提高52% 。
犹他大学研究者进行了实验，研究在人们使用不同大小的电脑时，对如处理文件和对表格数据的复制一类的操作速度：一组使用18寸显示器，一组使用24寸显示器，另一组使用两个20寸显示器。他们发现：使用24寸的比使用18寸的完成任务的速度快52%；使用两个20寸的比使用18寸的快44%。这里有个上限，使用26寸显示器的工作效率又下降了。（处理的任务和电脑大小是随机分配的。）
所以如果我算得没错的话，一周40小时完成的工作将会增加20小时的额外完成工作。这对40小时工作并在这40小时里一直对着电脑的人才有效。所以添置显示屏的花费——甚至超过400美金，在头一个月比增产的金额多。
如果你在考虑将之运用到你在家的工作上，你最好简单计算一下你每天真正用在工作上的时间是多少，然后乘以0.5。也就是如果你一周工作20小时，你使用较大的屏幕最多多完成10小时的工作量。那么，那10小时值多少钱？
从理论上说，你的副业每小时赚10美元。也就是说每周增加100美元或者说每年增加400美元收入。
100 x 4 = $400
你添置的显示屏要在一个月内付完，买不买？
对那些确实要使用两个显示屏的人来说，我能说两个显示屏确实加快了我的速度，提高了工作效率。特别是将一个文件的数据复制到另一个文件的时候。另外在进行复杂的安装和配置时，我能在一个屏幕上看操作步骤在另一个屏幕上进行配置，这样省去了最小化和还原窗口的时间……
你的显示器是怎么安装的？你不止使用一个显示器吗？还是多于两个？我很想知道增加显示器会提高还是降低你的工作效率。
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