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Tech Takes
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April 17, 2020If you’re on a desktop right now, there a pretty good chance you’re reading this article in your Chrome browser. Launched in 2008, Chrome dominates about 60% of the US desktop market according to StatCounter data. Chrome’s popular for a reason—it’s fast, stable and reliable—but its liberal use of user data has raised privacy concerns in the tech community and beyond. If you decide that Chrome isn’t the right choice for your business anymore, you have other options. Here are a few to consider.
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April 16, 2020
For some, the term “tech innovation” brings to mind new PC form factors and unique printing methods. But high-tech innovation doesn't stop at hardware—it also includes displays.
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April 16, 2020For some, the term “tech innovation” brings to mind new PC form factors and unique printing methods. But high-tech innovation doesn't stop at hardware—it also includes displays. In recent years, display innovation has produced heightened resolution, connectivity, functionality, and ROI. Displays are sleek, stylish, more robust, and thoughtfully aligned with today's dynamic, agile, and collaborative workspaces. Designed to drive work teams, the latest iterations of this often overlooked, but critical technology can boost your performance, productivity, and efficiency.
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March 27, 2020Most home offices are littered with ergonomics errors, which can impair productivity and health, and cost you money. Here’s how to set up work environments that won’t sacrifice comfort, efficiency or health.When working from home, it’s tempting to jump on a laptop and toil away in your favorite easy chair. The problem is, if you don’t treat digital work as a form of manual labor, your neck, back, arms or wrists will eventually exact their revenge.
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March 27, 2020Most home offices are littered with ergonomics errors, which can impair productivity and health, and cost you money. Here’s how to set up work environments that won’t sacrifice comfort, efficiency or health. When working from home, it’s tempting to jump on a laptop and toil away in your favorite easy chair. The problem is, if you don’t treat digital work as a form of manual labor, your neck, back, arms or wrists will eventually exact their revenge. Some 1.8 million workers suffer every year from repetitive strain injuries (RSI), which have surged in the last quarter century. These conditions can range from irritating to debilitating. (ever try opening a door with a carpal tunnel flare-up?) A company whose workers accumulate on-the-job injuries face higher workers’ compensation premiums, not to mention lost time and productivity. In fact, employers already pay $1 billion every week toward direct workers’ comp costs, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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March 26, 2020
Stay productive anywhere
Just because you’re working from home doesn’t mean you can’t still use the best technology. Fortunately, the latest laptop PCs continue to add extraordinary capabilities to help small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operate more efficiently and grow.
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March 26, 2020Just because you’re working from home doesn’t mean you can’t still use the best technology. Fortunately, the latest laptop PCs continue to add extraordinary capabilities to help small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operate more efficiently and grow.
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March 25, 2020Even before the latest headlines changed the telecommuting landscape, working remotely has been appealing for a lot of reasons: You don’t have a soul-sucking commute, you’re in charge of your daily routine, and you can work for a company you love that just happens to be in a different city. (If you’re a remote worker in Vermont you can even get a cash bonus for being so awesome.)
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March 24, 2020
Working remotely? Try these helpful tools
We have entered into a nationwide work-from-home experiment. Because of these events, major tech players such as LinkedIn and Twitter (as well as many other tech-oriented businesses) have mandated that workers stay home, conduct meetings and job interviews by video, and halt business travel for the foreseeable future.
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March 24, 2020We have entered into a nationwide work-from-home experiment. Because of these events, major tech players such as LinkedIn and Twitter (as well as many other tech-oriented businesses) have mandated that workers stay home, conduct meetings and job interviews by video, and halt business travel for the foreseeable future. Even if you’ve worked from home occasionally in the past, being forced to telecommute every day may require you to change some of your day-to-day habits to get work done. Fortunately, there are dozens of apps on the market designed to help you be more productive. Let’s take a look at three important areas of productivity (collaboration, note-taking, and efficiency boosters) that’ll improve your workflow out of your home office.