If not bigger, than at least more is better. I'm referring to computer monitors by the way.

A recent study at the University of Utah found that "people using the 24-inch screen completed the tasks 52% faster than people who used the [single] 18-inch monitor; people who used the two 20-inch monitors were 44% faster than those with the [single] 18-inch ones." (emphasis mine)

Wow. If you were a manager wouldn't you want to help your employees become 44% faster? Do I hear a resounding, nay, deafening YES?

Personally, I have been using 2 monitors at work for the past 3-4 years and I feel like it made a significant improvement in my productivity. I usually have at least 5-8 applications open at any given time and am actively switching back and forth between 2 or 3 of them. I could be writing code in Visual Studio on one screen with a browser open on the other for research. Or I could be writing a document in Word and referring to email in Outlook and an internal web site in the browser. No matter what the configuration, having 2 monitors is so much easier.

Any person or company that doesn't realize the benefit of bigger and/or multiple monitors is being penny wise, pound foolish.

~tod