.com
Study Says Paperless Office A Myth
By
May 5, 2008, 08:09
A study conducted by Ivey Business Consulting Group for printer manufacturer Lexmark Canada Inc. says the average employee working in a large company in Canada prints almost 50 pages daily. Ivey is a consulting group based at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario.
If the same employee worked in a small-to-medium sized environment, the employee would print 35 pages per day. As well, 60 per cent of all the information created by this employee is printed.
Some key points of this study:
- Technology is actually driving office printing and paper use, not eliminating it.
- Individuals now have more control of what gets printed and when, so printing is more effective.
- Printing is regarded as a tool to help workers better digest, manage and track information they need to do their jobs.
- Business documents represent the bulk of pages being printed (62 per cent), while e-mail and Internet printing represent averages of 16 and 9 per cent of total print volumes, respectively.
- Businesses receive approximately 60 per cent of their data electronically while about 40 per cent is provided in hardcopy format.
- Over 60 per cent of all documents created are printed.
© Copyright 2005 by