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Dual-Monitors Increase Productivity

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This post from LifeHacker shows how the New York Times mentions that your productivity rises with dual monitors. Is this true?


Survey after survey shows that whether you measure your productivity in facts researched, alien spaceships vaporized, or articles written, adding an extra monitor will give your output a considerable boost — 20 percent to 30 percent, according to a survey by Jon Peddie Research.

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Do Dual Monitors Increase Productivity?

I have two 22″ Dell wide screen monitors. I bought one of them and the other one I mainly “took” over since it wasn’t being put to use. Since I have these two bad boys, I really can’t go back. I usually have them both landscape, and sometimes I tend to rotate one over for a portrait view in order to have a ridiculous amount of reading space.
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