ABSTRACT

In its May 2000 edition, the American magazine PC World (US Edition) published its top-ten list of computer display models as evaluated by its test centre for IT products in San Francisco. All ten models turned out to have been certified by the Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation (TCO, the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees), a central trade union organisation with 1.2 million members. The TCO had joined with the Swedish environmental movement to define qualities they wished to see for IT equipment in the work environment, as well as external environmental requirements.