Hagen/Sinclair Research is looking for IT professionals in the Los Angeles area to participate in a PAID FOCUS GROUP about the types of enduser technology used at your company.  Our client is interested in hearing about what factors are considered when purchasing computers, workstations, portable media and smartphones.

INCENTIVE: As a thank you for participating, those who complete the group will be paid an incentive of $275. There will be a pre-group homework assignment that pays an additional $150 for a total honorarium of $425.

DATE/TIME: The groups will take place March 18 and March 20, 2019.

FORMAT: 2-hour focus groups.

If you are interested in participating, please provide the following information. If your answers pre-qualify you for the study, one of our recruiters will call you to complete the screening process.

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* 1. Please enter the following information. We ask for your industry and occupation in order to invite you to appropriate studies. Your address is solely for the purpose of sending incentive checks.

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* 2. What is your gender?

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* 3. When was the last time you participated in a paid market research project?

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* 4. If the study was less than a year ago what was the topic?

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* 5. What is your age?

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* 6. Which of the following best describes your employment status?

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* 7. What is the name of the company you work for?

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* 8. Where is your company headquartered?

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* 9. What is your job title? 

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* 10. Please describe your role at your organization.

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* 11. What is the primary business/industry of the organization where you work?

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* 12. What type of mobile computer devices (not cell phones) would you deploy to your organization next year and why?

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* 13. What is your department or area of responsibility and how big is it – i.e., how many people do you manage?

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* 14. Describe the role you play in making IT decisions, including how you work with IT. 

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* 15. What part of your organization do you have the authority to influence the purchases of technology brands and models?

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* 16. Which, if any, of the following IT decision making processes are you directly involved in? Please select all that apply. 

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* 17. Are there any desktop or laptop brands that you would never consider deploying to end users at your organization? Is there one brand that you would only consider?

  Never Consider Only Consider
Apple
Microsoft
Dell
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Acer
Lenovo
Asus
Toshiba

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* 18. Thinking of your mobile device environment (laptops, 360s and detachables), what percentage of them are Windows-based, and what percentage are Apple?

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* 19. Please indicate what percentage of your company’s end users fall into each of the following five categories?

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On-the-Go Professionals - Someone who works more than 50% of the time away from the office, traveling and going to off-site meetings. They use their systems to multi-task and for light productivity (e.g. email/light communications, reviewing docs/files/graphics.
Opportunistic Immersive - Someone who works more than 50% of the time away from the office, traveling and going to off-site meetings. They use their systems for singular focused activities to create and/or develop new documents/files/graphics.
Corridor Warriors - Someone who is working away from their own desk but within their company more than 50%, going from meeting to meeting and/or working from multiple locations, but typically within the company building(s)/campus
Desk Centric - Someone who is working at their own desk in the office more than 50% of time
Remote Workers - Someone who is working full-time (at least 30 hours/week) outside of the company building (s)/campus (from home or other location)

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* 20. Approximately how many people work at your organization worldwide (i.e. not only at your location)?

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* 21. Please provide your LinkedIn address, business email or other form of online employment verification.

Thank you for taking the time to fill out our survey. A recruiter will call you to complete the screening process if your answers are a match to the study qualifications.

This is a legitimate paid market research study. To verify, go to our website: WWW.HAGENSINCLAIR.COM. If you want to receive personal invitations to future studies click the PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION LINK and sign up. We will contact you if a project arises that looks like a good fit for you. Thanks again!

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