Digital Seattle Blog

If your employees are still working at workstations with a single monitor, you may be doing your workplace productivity a disservice. While adding a second screen to their desk may not seem like an effective efficiency booster at first, the benefits it can have are very real.

One of the best ways businesses are providing employees with the means to be more productive with their workstations is by issuing them multiple displays. There are various advantages and disadvantages to using multiple displays that you should be aware of.

"Advantages and Disadvantages of Working With Multiple Screens", over at webdesignerdepot.com, weighs the pros and cons of using dual monitors on a PC. The pro that they mention that I have found the most useful is the ability to easily view two separate programs and copy and paste data between them. The article also links to a Pfeiffer report that measures the increase in productivity of having more screen real estate. Finally, the article shows pictures of a number of workstations equipped with dual monitors in order to help us imagine how it could fit in our own office spaces. It's worth a read if you are curious about having twice the screen space you have now!