A Few Tips To Change Your New Seattle Office Into A Reduced-paper Office

The reasons are endless why a Seattle office should reduce the amount of paper that they use, firstly the obvious eco-benefits, then the cost and also because paper cannot always be relied upon to store private and confidential data.

So for a firm that is relocating to an office in Seattle then here are some top tips to make it a 21st century paperless office, supplied by www.executiveofficespace.net.

1) Firstly, find out where the closer Seattle recycling facility is. Now that you are based in Seattle you need to know where all of the facilities are and how to get there from your Seattle office. You should also look into organising a collection service, as depending on your exact location in Seattle it usually is a long drive to the recycling facility/plant.

2) Secondly, try using emails rather than paper and pencil messages. The move effective and easy to implement ways to reduce paper usage in the office is to use electronic messaging rather than memos, fax machines and sending letters. By using this technique you will be able to reduce the money spend in the office and you will also make workers a lot more productive as they won't have to wander through the office delivering a letter but rather they can just click the button and in seconds the email is sent.

3) Journals, marketing materials and even the local daily paper can all be read on the internet, so there is absolutely no need to have a paper copy as well. This is the case as using paper to make magazines is one of the most wasteful and inefficient uses of paper that there is. This is the case as 90 percent of the time papers and magazines just end up in the bin anyway, so if that happens then you are just throwing money in the bin. Also if you subscribe to an electronic version of a magazine you will then be able to make use of any article more easily than if you had a hard copy of them.

4) Perhaps you could try an office white board instead of post-its. You office employees will need a place to make notes and usually this is on a post-it note that is lying around on the desk but in a modern office a few whiteboards would be a much better option. This is because a whiteboard is reusable and is a good way to jot down reminders or make notes about an important project. As a result a whiteboard can be a great way to reduce the use of paper in the office. So if you have just moved into Seattle Office Space from www.executiveofficespace.net, then you should find a stationers in Seattle and buy a white board.

5) Also remember that reducing paper usage doesn't just mean stop using A4 paper. It may also mean using an air hand-dryer in the toilet instead of paper towels and by using ceramic cups instead of disposable paper cups. There are dozens of simple things you can do to cut back on the amount of paper you use, it might just be something simple like putting up posters give your staff advice on how to save paper.

Recently one of the firms we deal with decided to move to a Seattle office and they used the relocation as a means to implement new paper usage and recycling procedures. In the end they saved quite a lot of money and their workers became very efficient when using paper.