--- title: Five Best: The Biggest Time Waste Might Be Your Old PC description: The biggest time suck at your office might be your old PC, this credit card uses your fingerprint and more. canonical: https://time.com/4750228/the-biggest-time-waste-at-your-office-might-be-your-old-pc/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-21T16:00:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:54.985Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Biggest Time Waste at Your Office Might Be Your Old PC og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4750228/the-biggest-time-waste-at-your-office-might-be-your-old-pc/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Biggest Time Waste at Your Office Might Be Your Old PC twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Biggest Time Waste at Your Office Might Be Your Old PC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The biggest time suck at your office might be your old PC.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-20/the-worst-thing-about-work-is-slow-office-computer-equipment) By Chris Stokel-Walker at _Bloomberg_ **2\.** [**This credit card doesn’t use a pin, just your fingerprint.**](https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/20/mastercard-biometric-fingerprint-card/) By Cherlynn Low in _Engadget_ **3\.** [**Should employers give paid time off for political activism?**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40407672/could-social-justice-benefits-be-the-newest-employment-trend) By Susan Johnston in _Fast Company_ **4\.** [**The NFL tries to protect players from concussions. Here’s why that doesn’t work.**](http://www.sbnation.com/2017/4/18/15213420/nfl-concussion-protocol-cheating-test) By Louis Bien in _SB Nation_ **5\.** [**Baseball has ‘farm teams’ to groom young talent. Tech companies should, too.**](https://www.recode.net/2017/4/19/15331366/tech-companies-recruitment-hiring-mlb-playbook-farm-teams-talent-deficit) By Tarlin Ray in _Recode_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4750228/the-biggest-time-waste-at-your-office-might-be-your-old-pc/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4750228/the-biggest-time-waste-at-your-office-might-be-your-old-pc/"},"headline":"The Biggest Time Waste at Your Office Might Be Your Old PC","datePublished":"2017-04-21T16:00:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:54.985Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4750228/the-biggest-time-waste-at-your-office-might-be-your-old-pc/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","NFL","credit cards","productivity","tech"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4750228/the-biggest-time-waste-at-your-office-might-be-your-old-pc/","name":"The Biggest Time Waste at Your Office Might Be Your Old PC"}}]}] ```