Workplace Hardware Provision

If you're working in an in-house IT dept. then giving the staff of a cost-centre better equipment than the "people who make all the money" is a big issue.If you're working in a big company then central IT probably have a standard PC supply agreement and standard image and will oppose allowing anything non-standard on the network until someone signs off on 2 or 3 extra support engineers to "support" this non standard stuff.If your company isn't making much money, any capital expenditure lik

At a minimum buy some mac mini's to leave in the office with some phones. Requiring use of own hardware on top of 12 hour shifts for a company with $45m in funding is just silly.

dual 4K 27 inch displays, top of the line CPU, 32GB+ RAM, comfy peripherals, etcFor what it's worth, you can easily match those specs with laptops these days.I guess what it boils down to is that most companies only want to give each person one computer and consider the value of their workers being able to take that computers with them somewhere (even if they only need that once a month or less) to be worth paying a premium for.

2 things:1. My brothers (I have a number of them) mostly work in construction somehow. It feels most of them drive a VW Transporter, a large pickup or something, each carrying at least $30 000 in equipment.Seeing people I work with get laptops that use multiple minutes to connect to a postgres database that I connect to in seconds feels really stupid. (I'm old enough that I get what I need, they usually rather pay for a decent laptop rather than start a hiring process.)2. My previo

Assuming both are laptops and you don't have some insane personal computer - you should seriously examine why your workplace is skimping on a few hundred dollars extra on a machine that might save you, an employee with a salary in the tens of thousands (or higher) a few days of waiting for things to load, render or compile a year.There certainly is a logic around not wasting money where it'd do no good - but companies that are tight with employee capital expenditures make me really

They probably need it, using someone else's computer is not cheap.

I don't think anyone is saying it's a requirement. Just a nice touch. Many people who work in technology are paid quite well and can afford to buy what they want instead of the bare minimum of what they need. I'd rather not be rude but since you went there why even buy a new computer at all? You could donate that money to one of those unfortunate places and feed a family for half a year.

IBM saw their internal tech support requirement plummet when they switched to MacBooks.I've never understood companies that cheap out on laptops. Even if you only pay someone minimum wage (€1800), a high end laptop is ~1 month wage, and you get a tax write-off on it too.Even if that person only works there for 2 years, that's 4.2% of the cost of employing them.Even worse is when management doles maxed out iPhones and MacBooks Pros out to themselves, but the main workforce has

Software engineers will often get a laptop at work, sometimes need two devices at home for some reason (one Linux, one Mac or one for Windows games), make money using them (so it makes sense to buy a new one if it's faster / has a better display) and can afford it. So I find your post very weird.

It's because the people making the decisions about what computers everyone else should get buy themselves the best computer possible and don't feel the pain. Surely X company cant afford to get everyone the best macbook possible. That would be like a few thousand more per device per employee!!!