If the covid pandemic has pushed companies to buy laptops en masse, in particular to equip employees for teleworking, in France it seems that most employees still have to work with old and therefore inefficient PCs .
According to a study* carried out for Fleet, while 41% of French people say they are perfectly equipped with IT equipment for the start of the school year in September, 59% say they are not. In detail, 20% admit to being moderately well equipped and 39% not at all.
In question therefore, the old age of the park. 37% of those surveyed work with a machine that is more than 4 years old, while 33% have their computer between 3 and 4 years old. Only 19% have a PC that is 1-2 years old, and a lucky 11% use very new hardware less than a year old.
Lack of anticipation, scarcity and lack of means
58% want their company to change their computer for a more efficient model. These “old” computers tend to poison the lives of employees. The first problem that 59% of French people face with their computer is slowness. 45% also complain about battery life and 31% about poor WiFi connection.
The problem is not necessarily due to management’s unwillingness to buy new machines (31% of cases according to the study). In fact, 32% of respondents said their company is experiencing supply difficulties due to component shortages.
Businesses seem puzzled, with 41% of French people believing that their companies have not anticipated these supply difficulties at all, and 38% only moderately.
The lack of means is also mentioned, since according to 15% of those surveyed, they indicate that their companies “do not have the means to equip themselves”.
This question is far from trivial. In a context of reversal of the balance of power in business between employees and their managers, the quality of the digital environment becomes essential to attract and retain talent.
A source of anguish and even resignation
According to an extensive study** conducted earlier this year by the research firm Vanson Bourne for Nexthink, 42% of employees believe that the quality of the work environment influences their recommendations for the company that employs them.
Worse yet, 28% of employees ages 25-34 say they might quit their job because of a bad digital experience. However, this figure drops to 24% for 35-44 year olds and 15% for 45-54 year olds.
according to one another cabinet studyHR (human resources) and IT (technical department) managers rank poor-quality technology services as the third leading cause of burnout or attrition after compensation/growth opportunities and toxic company culture.
“Just as employee engagement can create a positive ripple effect on the business, employee IT mishaps can tip the balance the other way. When technology isn’t up to the task, it interrupts, distracts and discourages even the more motivated talent, but a disinterested one”. workforce leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity, with Gallup reporting global losses of $7 billion a year due to employee disengagement.
Thus, 40% of the employees surveyed believe that they suffer at least once a week some technical problem that prevents them from working.
*: Survey conducted among 2,102 people representative of the French national population aged 18 or over. Survey conducted online by the BuzzPress panel of respondents (27,000 people in France) between 5 and 13 September 2022. Subsequently, the responses were collected and weighted according to pre-established quotas in order to ensure the representativeness of the sample and obtain a representativeness of the target population.
**: Vanson Bourne interviewed 1,000 employees, including 400 in the United States, 200 in the United Kingdom, 200 in France, and 200 in Germany within 750 companies with 1,000 to 4,999 employees and 750 companies with more than 5,000 employees.
Source: BFM TV
