Offices are the places where people in the job life spend most of their waking hours and offices are also the places where people consume natural resources and energy the most. The step into the more ecological office work can actually make a big difference, even if the means as such feel rather small. But if an average office worker produces 7000 sheets of printed paper every year, only taking into practice of printing only two-sided copies can reduce the number into half. Also, a lot of energy can be saved only by every office worker remembering to switch off the screen at the end of the day.
Offices use a lot of energy. Printers, computers, lights, heating and air-conditioning all eat vast amounts of energy and it shows in the electricity bill as well. Actually saving energy or finding more nature friendly ways of doing the work is not only a matter of ecological choice, but is an economically wise idea as well. Cutting down the consuming of paper or switching off the office lights when leaving the work place are along with a service to nature, a service to the company´s finances as well.
There are many means by which the office environment and the spending time at the work place can be reworked to be more nature friendly. The way the waste and especially paper waste is handled in the office has a big effect on the offices` ecological footprint. The whole workflow can be transformed into less nature consuming, for example moving into paperless accounting with the help of electronic accounting (in Finnish=sähköinen kirjanpito) or drafting documents via internet or internal connections.
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