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Mobile devices allow us and our companies to work on the move. Not being tied to a desk means we can work wherever we are, whether that’s on the train, plane, or in a coffee shop. It opens up the possibility of work productivity skyrocketing, and colleagues feeling freer to work outside the confines of the office. Mobile devices come with a price however, and that price is battery life.  

Battery Life is Killing Your Business Productivity

Batteries are great, right until the moment they run out – and they can run out at the worst times, when we’re in the middle of some work or an important meeting. Here are the five reasons bad battery life is killing your business productivity:

1. Loss of Work When you’re halfway through creating that business proposal, or the best presentation you’ve ever put together, the last you thing you need or want is to watch that work disappear, replaced by a black screen. Poor battery life is destroying the hard work of you and your colleagues, causing your business to lose countless hours of productivity and talent. Additionally, work never quite has the same energy when you’re having to re-do it, meaning your proposals and presentations are not quite as good as they were the first time you created them.
2. Your Meetings are Being Interrupted Your team might not always be in the office, but it’s important you maintain contact, so you know who is working on what, and how they’re progressing. It can often be hard to organise everyone to make the same meeting time, but even if you do, there’s no guarantee everyone will stick around. Poor battery life can lead to staff falling off of calls, annoying at the least when you’re attempting to keep up with everyone, and virtually disastrous if it’s a client-facing meeting. Having a key team member fall off a client call due to battery life, just when you needed them to answer a difficult question, can lead to tricky situations.
3. Downtime Batteries dying in the middle of work or meetings is bad enough, but what about the potential to lose half a day’s work in time? Poor battery life on laptops can mean the majority of a day wasted if there’s nowhere for you to plug in and wait for your device to charge.
4. Dead Devices Housing Valuable Assets Imagine for a second one of your designers has been working on a project for weeks or months, and having finally completed the work, makes their way to your office to present to the client. Only, their laptop is dead due to poor battery life, and they’ve forgotten their charger. Your client is in your office, expecting to see something excellent, and instead they’re met with disappointment. While this is also a recommendation to back up work consistently to on-site or cloud storage, it’s also a warning against using devices with poor battery life, that can leave you and your team lacking the work you need to get things done.
5. Rapid-draining Batteries Are Restricting Your Freedom to Work Everywhere It’s not always dead batteries that cause the most frustration. Indeed, it can often be devices with batteries that discharge quickly that cause the most chaos. You may think your laptop is reliable, only for it to betray you at a critical moment. You may know that your battery offers a short operating time, limiting you from working for long periods of time without scouring your surroundings for an outlet. Worse, if you don’t know, you may have planned an afternoon of work out of the office, only to lose hours of time to a batter that’s dead after an hour or so.

Say Goodbye to Bad Battery Life: Introducing the ASUS VivoBook 14: Up to 24 Hours of Interrupted Productivity

The ASUS VivoBook 14 is a stunning laptop that places its emphasis not only on performance, but maintaining that performance through an entire day. With up to 24 hours of battery life, you can leave your power adapter behind, working stress-free throughout several work days without worrying about plugging in. Windows 10 comes preinstalled on the VivoBook 14, offering Window’s most battery-friendly and performant operating system, so you can get more work done quicker, and for longer. If battery life is a primary concern for your business, consider the VivoBook 14. Find out more: ASUS Pro P403FA-EB021R