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Update on the paperless office
The paperless office is getting closer:
Older people still prefer a hard copy of most things, but younger workers are increasingly comfortable reading on screens and storing and retrieving information on computers or online. As a result, International Paper has closed five uncoated-freesheet mills in America in the past decade, and the industry is consolidating. IP is investing instead in poor countries, where demand is still growing.
Paper usage will remain strong, The Economist notes, on high-end jobs - where paper still beats screens in the tactile experience, and where a physical artifact is meaningful or valuable.
In my company we recommend the employees to use the two paper sides printing as printer default configuration.
Thus we got 30% of paper bill as savings