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In the endless quest to improve worker productivity, many organisations overlook one obvious bottleneck: the display we use to interface with the desktops and workstations we use regularly. Tabbing between applications or instances of applications on the desktop, scrolling horizontally, relying on dual monitors to do design work – all of these extra steps and extra movements create inefficiencies.

One way to open up the bottleneck between the user and the display is to use widescreen monitors, as the amount of the image (or document, or video, or information etc.) you can see obviously becomes greater with increased size and widescreen ratio. 

The research is in

While studying work efficiency patterns, Microsoft® researchers (1) discovered that one of the easiest ways to boost productivity by between 9 and 50 percent was to switch over to a multi-monitor configuration. (2) In one paper, researcher Jonathan Grudin noted that the “overwhelming consensus” of Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD) users was that they would never switch back to single monitor use; this paper was written before larger widescreen monitors were as widely available as they are today. (3)

The Pfeiffer Group, a research firm, has claimed that efficiency gains of 50 to 65 percent can be seen when a user upgrades from a 17- or 19-inch monitor to a 30-inch high-resolution LCD monitor. (4) Interestingly, these gains were across a diverse range of industries, not just the usual suspects like design and MCAD. General productivity and office tasks also benefited from the higher resolution screen.

More screen real estate = greater productivity

On a practical daily basis, you are constantly multi-tasking. When you’re working with a large Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, for instance, how much time do you typically spend fussing with hiding columns or scrolling left and right, up and down? Have you ever had a hard time understanding a spreadsheet because you couldn’t see enough of it at once? Or have you even printed out multiple sheets and taped them together so you can get a better visual grasp of the data?

A high-resolution, large-format LCD monitor allows you to see more columns and rows at one time. You can also tile applications and windows on your screen without sacrificing readability, making tasks like transcription and comparison not only quicker but more accurate.

Additional benefits include:

• Smaller desktop footprint than two or more monitors, which may be an advantage in space-constrained environments.
• A single view space, offering more uninterrupted screen real estate for "design peripheral vision" and allowing a holistic view of a single model.
• Less toggling or scrolling than two or more monitors may require.
• No need for a second video connector/graphics card and cable to connect a second monitor.

HP widescreen LCD monitors

HP offers a number of specific benefits that are exclusive to HP workstation LCDs.

• HP Display LiteSaver allows you to schedule low-power sleep modes, e.g. at the end of the work day.
• Quick-release mount enables you to reorient your display on a stand, mount or wall.
• Every monitor can be rotated or remounted in a vertical orientation.
• No-hassle support and warranties; factory audits help to ensure near-zero defects on shipped displays.

 Our latest monitor, the HP LP3065, is ahead of the pack:

• A high-contrast ratio implies better colour representation on a monitor. The HP LP3065 boasts a 1000:1 ratio vs. the 700:1 commonly found elsewhere.
• Response time measures the speed with which a monitor will display an image. The HP LP3065 has a very fast 8 ms response time vs. 11 ms for others. 
• The colour gamut is a subset of colours that can be accurately represented. HP’s colour gamut for the LP3065 is 92 percent of the NTSC standard colour space, compared to 72 percent of NTSC found in other models.