tim@vsi1.UUCP (Tim Richardson) (03/17/88)
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CORPORATE AMERICA
BURIED IN PAPER GLUT
There is the equivalent of a four-drawer file cabinet filled
with 18,000 pieces of paper for every white-collar worker in the
United States. Furthermore, each cabinet of files costs companies
$25,000 to print and process and another $2,160 annually to maintain.
The result is that America is burying itslef in a $100,000 billion
mound of paperwork -- some 30 billion pages of original documents
a year.
Computers and copiers are the primary cause of the burgeoning
paper glut, author Dianna Booher says in PERSONNEL JOURNAL. Today's
technology makes it eask to create and distribute multiple copies of
even the most trivial documents, she says. Employees looking for
praise or to avoid responsibility may also be excessive paper producers,
as are many memo writters.
(From INSIGHT, February 1988)
G O O D H E A V E N S !!!!
What about us???
Tim Richardson