The “Less Paper” office – another step towards sustainability
Remember the “paperless office” ? The “paperless office” became a buzzword after being introduced in an article, “The Office of the Future”, in Business Week in 1975. It coincided with the advent of the personal computer, and the hope was that all documents could be processed electronically and that paper would become irrelevant.
But has paper disappeared? Not at all. Actually, paper consumption is still increasing globally, soaring to extremely high levels (some estimates go as high as 10-50 trillion pages !). Paper continues to predominate in activities that involve knowledge work, reading and collaboration.
So how do we manage paper now and in the future? Read my latest white paper to learn how to use paper more responsibly, reduce the amount of paper that your organization uses and effectively drive business improvement from a cost, communication, and environmental standpoint. This is the “Less Paper Office”, and we need to make it a reality now.
“The “Less Paper” Office: How to Reduce Costs, Enhance Security and be a Better Global Citizen” gives facts, tips and technologies that should help your organization become a better global and green citizen - keys to sustainability in your business !
Interesting post and whitepaper! I agree with you that paper is becoming a more temporary medium. I see that people still like to read from paper, comment on the paper, but after they process the comments in the digital document, they throw away the paper document.
In the whitepaper in missed why “paperless” is so hard (or what the real affordances of paper are). I also appreciated the part on what Xerox is doing w.r.t. environmental issues.
I’ll post on this whitepaper shortly.
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