Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.

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    Conversely, IT is arguing about a $90 license on an employee that costs 80k. If it saves them 2 hours of productivity over the course of the year, it’s an even trade, wouldn’t you say?

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      Yeah but those $90 savings make IT management look good, and that 80k/year doesn’t come out of IT’s budget. Also the productivity loss can’t objectively be measured or will just be blamed on the employee.

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      Pisses me off no end when companies cheap out on IT equipment. I work in a place where a large number of us will be on £35 - £55k, yet the IT budget for each of us is less than 1% of our salary over 3 years.

      It’s crazy. Don’t employ professionals then give them low end enthusiast gear.

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        If it was us, we wouldn’t have to be fighting for the licenses either.

        It’s usually some high level IT exec who thinks they’ll get a bonus if they shave off $5K in expenses.

        It took me months to get them to allow it even though I need it. And in the end, they gave me Creative Suite for some reason.

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      I worked for a small multinational (20.000ish employees).

      The licensing department saved about 3 mio USD/year when they started going at license pinching.

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      Yeah, this penny pinching on licenses is pretty absurd. I promise you that it hardly affects the bottom line.

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      No shit man. I just pay for my own. Ain’t worth arguing with IT. Saved me a shit ton of time reliably converting and editing PDFs.

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      $90? Where can I get Adobe Acrobat for $90? Standard is 14.99 per month! I’d buy that shit all day if it was a one time fee of $90.

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        It’d probably $90/year, not a one-time fee. Which is still a lot better than monthly, but probably only available to businesses/bulk licence buyers