Why Two Screens

We’ve standardized on two screens here at TheLadders.com — all employees have two computer monitors on their desk, and some have 3. One lunatic even has four! ;)

My VP, Technology dug up this article on the improved productivity:

“On the bigger screen, people completed the tasks at least 10 percent more quickly – and some as much as 44 percent more quickly.”

Another part of the article he found interesting was:

Gloria Mark compares this to the way that people work when they are “co-located” – sitting next to each other in cubicles – versus how they work when they are “distributed,” each working from different locations and interacting online. She discovered that people in open-cubicle offices suffer more interruptions than those who work remotely. But they have better interruptions, because their co-workers have a social sense of what they are doing. When you work next to other people, they can sense whether you’re deeply immersed, panicking or relatively free and ready to talk – and they interrupt you accordingly.

Workspace design is so important for productivity!

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