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(850111) * on Thursday April 16, 2009 @02:46PM (#27600981)
Homepage     I worked as head of Critical Factilities
Engineering for a major financial services provider with a 1 MM
sq ft campus. There were just over 4000 employees on the campus,
each one with at least 1 computer at his/her office/cube. After
having a very expensive energy audit performed, a potential
savings was (big surprise) shutting down PCs.      Despite
calculating that the organization could save $75K annually (this
was a conservative estimate), their marketing department put a
stop to the idea. Why marketing? Because the company had just
gone through a "rebranding" and the marketing department had
designed a new screensaver for all workstations with the new
logo/slogan. None of these computers were i