Gather responses
"We fly economy. My 16-inch laptop won't open on the tray table, and I lose hours of valuable work time."
Laptops and computers. Sales AE. Model A 16"
HappySignals helps you understand how employees really experience the laptops and computers they use every day. Find out which devices drive productivity, which create frustration, and where your next investment will have the greatest impact.
"We fly economy. My 16-inch laptop won't open on the tray table, and I lose hours of valuable work time."
Laptops and computers. Sales AE. Model A 16"
Why Sales AEs are unhappy with laptops
Pilot a lightweight 14" model with 40 travelling AEs and re-measure after 90 days. Keep the 16" for desk roles. Expected saving: about 4 hours per person a month.
Illustrative demo data. The scene, comments, scores, and suggested outcomes are not customer results.
Seven things that turn device data into refresh decisions you can defend, by model, role, and age.
Experience, employee, device, and telemetry data together. Turn a simple laptop score into reasons: which model, which role, which age band, and why.
You may select more than one option
Research-backed questions about your laptops and devices, the same for everyone, and a global benchmark to show what good actually looks like.
People answer, so you hear from everyone in different roles instead of just the loudest voices. Enough responses to fairly compare models and age bands.
Frontline, traveling, remote, and back office people experience the same laptop very differently. See the impact by role, location, and work style.
Just ask. Which laptops can run a fourth year, which roles need a different model, or a refresh summary for the CFO? Ask and get the answer in seconds.
Lost time translates device experience into business impact. See which models and age bands cost employees the most time, and direct your refresh budget toward improvements in productivity.
Certified integrations with ServiceNow CMDB and Nexthink, with ready-made surveys and benchmarks. Live in days with data you can use from day one.
You know how old every laptop is and when they crash. But you have no clue who's losing an hour a week due to laptop issues.
| Question | Asset register | DEX telemetry | HappySignals |
|---|---|---|---|
| How old is each device, and is it in warranty? | From your CMDB | ||
| Crashes, boot time and CPU load | – | With Nexthink | |
| How people rate the device they work on | – | – | |
| Which roles lose time, and how much | – | – | |
| Why: battery, weight, model or setup | – | Partly | |
| Which refresh can safely wait a year | – | Partly |
Experience by user segment, not a single average. Spot hidden pockets of poor experience, compare groups fairly, and target improvements precisely. Choose a person to see their group's employee data.
Illustrative segments. Yours come from the employee data questions your people answer.
Choose where you want to improve experience. Then pick a use case to see how HappySignals handles it.
A fixed refresh cycle replaces laptops people are still happy with and keeps ones that are costing them hours. Ask employees, and you'll see which devices can safely run another year and which need replacing now, whatever their age.
Illustrative demo data. Assess experience alongside security and patchability before extending a device's life.
When someone reports a slow laptop, investigate the cause before deciding to replace it. Combine employee feedback with technical data to distinguish device performance from VPN, WiFi, or application issues.
Illustrative demo data. Investigate the cause of lost time before deciding on a refresh.
Giving everyone the same laptop gets it wrong twice. Some people carry more machine than they'll ever use, and others wait on machines that can't keep up with their work. Employee feedback shows which roles are which across your organization.
Illustrative demo data. Same model, very different experience.
A trackpad instead of a mouse, no proper keyboard, or a dock that drops the screen can affect how you work. Employee feedback helps you identify which accessories and desk setups need attention and measure the lost time they cause.
The dock drops the external screen or the network several times a day, and people restart to get it back.
Mentioned in 412 feedbackWorking on the laptop screen alone slows down anything with two windows or a spreadsheet.
Mentioned in 301 feedbackHeadsets cut out in calls, so meetings start late and get repeated.
Mentioned in 288 feedbackIllustrative demo data. Feedback can reveal problems with accessories and desk setup.
Compare experience across every model you support. Use happiness, lost time, role requirements, and technical data to identify which models fit your employees' work and which need further investigation.
Illustrative demo data. Compare all six models by role, lost time, and technical requirements before deciding what to retain or replace.
Each screen uses illustrative demo data. Monetary figures are modeled scenarios, not customer results.
Start with a laptop score that looks fine. Follow it to the models, the people, and the decisions behind it, on demo data.
Understand experience by meaningful employee segments rather than a single average. Compare groups fairly, and target improvements precisely.
Understand who are struggling with the devices you have chosen.
Laptops that worked well for people, and stayed secure and patchable, stayed in service. The ones costing people time went to the front of the queue. Spare machines in London, New York and Singapore covered the gaps.
Anonymised customer story.
Two models to choose from at lease end, a battery problem the data spotted and then confirmed fixed, and a lifecycle cut from five years to four. No single big change, just steady work.
Anonymised customer story. Comparison: HappySignals Global IT Experience Benchmark 2026, chapter 14 (2025 figure).
Nexthink tells you what the device is doing. We tell you how it feels to the person using it. Side by side, you know what to fix first.
How the integration works →No long sales process. A conversation, your device data connected, and your people rating their laptops.
You talk to a device management specialist. We review your laptops, refresh plans, and any questions you have. Then we build a custom demo to show you how HappySignals answers your questions.
After it's a go, we'll get started. If you've got ServiceNow or Nexthink, we'll connect with them and correlate the data you already have. Surveys go out, and experience data starts to gather.
Employees rate their devices. You start to see experience data by model, age, and role. Ask questions to explore which people are losing time, on which models, and why.
A 45-minute call with a device management specialist. Bring your own questions.
Demo experience