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Powergen supplies staff with home PCs

PeoplePC wins contract

Drew Cullen

Mon 25 Jun 2001 // 15:01 UTC

Powergen, the multi-utility, is to offer PCs at home for 5,000 UK staff.

Workers will pay "a modest monthly fee", subsidised by their employer, for a computer/software/service/Internet access bundle.

This is supplied by PeoplePC, a US firm which specialises in fulfilling corporate PC dole-out schemes. ®

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