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    [–] Clbull@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I'm surprised it hasn't seen wider workplace adoption.

    A call centre I used to work in once scrapped all our Microsoft Office licences and installed OpenOffice on everyone's workstations to cut costs. It was bad for the MI staff because they relied on Excel functionality that OO Calc simply didn't have, but the vast majority of staff could get by on OpenOffice.

    My only real criticisms of how they handled this was not giving people any notice, and making us use a shitty webmail app that only booted in Internet Explorer and would sign you out after a minute of inactivity to access our work emails. They could have easily installed and configured Mozilla Thunderbird to give us some quality of life that Outlook once afforded us.

    Also this happened a few years after Oracle got their hands on OO, so not using LibreOffice was also questionable.

    But still. Think about the shitloads of money you'd save by using Linux in the office.