Turn Your Home Office Green, To $ave Green
In this economy, businesses are trying to cut costs any way they can. Turns out, one big way to save is by going green.
Not only can the more than 27 million small business owners in the United States play a huge role in conserving our natural resources, but their green actions can help their bottom line, too. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average office worker in the U.S. uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year. That’s 4 million tons of copy paper used annually, or 96 trees. It all adds up.
Probably the easiest way to improve your office’s efficiency is by investing in a server. A huge benefit to having a server is that you can access your data from anywhere/anytime, and still maintain actual physical control of all of your data.
Creating an eco-friendly, paperless office has spin-off benefits. Aside from avoiding paper waste, you can also become more efficient in all areas of your business life, from cutting back on travel and fossil fuels to getting rid of all the material resources that paper demands, such as storage space, fax machines, toner cartridges, etc. Here’s a staggering statistic: Fax machines annually consume around a trillion pages of paper, or 735 million trees. Going paperless would alleviate most of that waste.
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Jaclyn on January 12th, 2009 4:04 pm
There are benefits to going green in the office in terms of becoming paperless…however, just remember that during a storm and a power failure…you can not access your data anywhere anytime. just keep that in mind, you may still want to have some sort of “hard copy” somewhere in the office in that event. there is another way to go green in the office, there is now different types of copy paper that are considered “green” product’s, however, they do cost about 12 cents more per ream, but…if you are really committed…that is always’ another way.
Miles Technologies on January 19th, 2009 8:06 am
With the help of a business technology solution, going paperless can have the added benefit of saving a significant amount of money for businesses, because it eliminates the need for copy and fax machines supplies and maintenance. Additionally, electronic filing can save businesses time by allowing for more efficient data retrieval and organization.
cassy on January 21st, 2009 7:53 pm
i like the idea, its great and awesome,thanks rich for this informatrion!
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