Why Fewer PCs Were Needed in Offices During the Pandemic: Exploring the Impact of Remote Work

Quote: “During the pandemic, a lot of people worked from home, which meant that fewer PCs were needed in the office.”

That doesn’t seem like a complete explanation to me. Many took their laptop home from the office – obligatorily. Then you would think that fewer home PCs were needed, since the work laptop was permanently in the house. So the possible replacement of a private laptop with a new one could be postponed.

However, it’s not clear to me if most of them brought their work laptops home or not. Usually work PCs have a different setup, security, protected networking (VPN), licensed software, etc… You are usually not allowed to do any work on a home laptop because of a different setup.

What could be the case is that fewer company computers were purchased due to the uncertain economic climate during corona.

[Reactie gewijzigd door D100 op 9 april 2024 17:44]

2024-04-09 15:08:27
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