A bit of advice to turn your Atlanta office into a paper-reduced and an eco-aware office

Mar 14
09:25

2011

Keon

Keon

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For some years experts in IT have been saying within a few years will all be in a paper-free office, an office that is aware of the impact we are having on the environment.

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At presently we cannot know if this prophecy will come true but any office can cut back on paper and reap all of the benefits.The reasons are endless why an Atlanta office should reduce the amount of paper that they use,A bit of advice to turn your Atlanta office into a paper-reduced and an eco-aware office Articles firstly there is money to be saved, then there are obvious eco-benefits and also because paper is not always the safest way to store private and confidential data.So for companies moving to a new Atlanta office then here are some tips to make that office a paperless and modern office, supplied by office-suites.com.1) Firstly, check to see where exactly in Atlanta is the local recycling facility. Now that you are based in Atlanta you need to know where all of the facilities are and which way to get there from the office. It will also be of benefits to arrange a collection service, as from your Atlanta office it could be quite a distance to the plant.2) Next, you should use emails rather than paper and snail mail. Perhaps one of the most efficient ways to cut back on the amount of paper your office uses is to use IT based messaging to to connect with other staff instead of sending letters or memos. If you use this method then you will be able to reduce office spending and make employees a lot more efficient and productive as they will no longer have to travel to office when delivering a letter but rather they can just click the button and in seconds the email is sent.3) Newspapers, magazines and marketing materials can now all be received electronically, so there is no need to have paper copies. In fact, using paper for these particular purposes is perhaps one of the most, if not the most, wasteful and inefficient use of paper that there has ever been. What I mean by this is that 99 percent of the time papers and magazines just end up in the trash, so if that happens then you are just throwing money in the bin. Also by opting for a digital copy via email you can then be creative with online content and use in an important presentation or business meeting.4) Eliminate the need for post-its with an office white board. Your workers all need somewhere to make the odd note and more often than not this is on a yellow post-it but in a reduced paper office you might want to think about using a whiteboard and using that. A whiteboard can be used and reused many times and is a good way to brainstorm with your workers and flesh out some of their ideas. As a result a whiteboard is a great way to cut back and minimise the sheets of paper that are used in your office. So if you have made the move to an Atlanta executive suite from office-suites.com, then you should go to the nearest shop and buy a whiteboard.5) And just so you know it's not all about A4 paper, paper-free means much more. It also means using an electric heater to dry your hands rather than paper towels and by using coffee mugs rather than paper cups. There is an endless list of things to do to reduce the consumption of paper, it might just be something simple like putting a paper bin in the corner of the office.Just a few months ago one of the companies I work with relocated to an Atlanta office and they used the office relocation as a way to implement new recycling and paper usage guidelines. This saved them a lot of money and even made their workers more efficient with office equipment.

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