Sunday, June 21, 2009

License Shortage

Before April, when so many contract workers were let go, the issue in using a shared CAD computer was finding a free one. There is an extensive set of rules and a reservation system that makes it easy to always have a computer available to you if you arrive early enough. Shortly after the amount of people vying for computers went down the company also reduced the number of licenses available, meaning that there now are more computers than licenses. This means that if I temporarily leave my CAD computer for a design review of meeting when I return the license will probably be unavailable. After a few minutes of logging out and logging back in I may be able to snag the license of someone else who has temporarily left their computer. It creates an interesting question of weather the cost of time workers spend fighting for licenses is more than the cost saved by purchasing less licenses.

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