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I work in a university data center and around here we leave our personal workstations on all the time, and only lock them when we are gone. There has been a lot of argument as to weather employees should be required to turn off their computer when leaving for the day.

How many people here who use a computer at work are required to shut it down when leaving for the day or the weekend?

THANKS!

In my office, people are required to leave the comps on over night and not shut them off when they leave the office, so that the back-up scripts can run over night.

Hi Dahak!

Yep, you used to have that policy. Our Data Center no longer provides back up for individual workstations on campus. They have user folders on the servers and their documents are to be kept there if they want them backed up. I think thats when the shut off/leave on argument came up.

Back when I worked for my university's computer center, it was more or less our choice except for the database machine, which always had to stay on. The lab computers got shut down every night however.

One thing to remember is that the monitor itself is the power hog for a computer. The system running by itself shouldn't do anything, except heat up the room...Wait, turn it off as your cooling bill will go up.

If you have no need for backups or updates to run at night, then turning them off will help save power. At least ask them to turn off the monitors. We provided user folders on the network for them, but there are always going to be the people you need to back up anyway.

BrYaN19kc wrote:I work in a university data center and around here we leave our personal workstations on all the time, and only lock them when we are gone. There has been a lot of argument as to weather employees should be required to turn off their computer when leaving for the day.

How many people here who use a computer at work are required to shut it down when leaving for the day or the weekend?

THANKS!

Am required to log off, but I generally shut my computer off at the end of the workday or when I step out of the office for an extended period of time...

We just log off for "security" reasons.

Tsyroc wrote:We just log off for "security" reasons.

I lock my station, so nobody else can log onto it or shut it down. We were not running any restrictions on who can log in where.

TrailerParkJawa wrote:If you have no need for backups or updates to run at night, then turning them off will help save power. At least ask them to turn off the monitors. We provided user folders on the network for them, but there are always going to be the people you need to back up anyway.

The fricken moron of a computer administrator at my high school did the opposite, kept the monitors on but turned the computers off.

I could keep going as to what was done in that school's computer lab that was stupid...

Dahak's sig wrote:Real Programmers don´t write comments. It was hard to write, it should be hard to read.

YES.

Someone tell that to my former programming teacher...

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TrailerParkJawa wrote:
I lock my station, so nobody else can log onto it or shut it down. We were not running any restrictions on who can log in where.

We share computers with the other shifts. Most of the security has to do with unauthorized people gaining access to patient's confidential information. It was a no-no, now it's a really big no-no.

Also by logging in and out our management can track certain aspects of our work.