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E-Newsletter – January 2014
2 ISSUE
nd
Our People Development
Why go green at work?
Nowadays, businesses are getting more aware of the importance of going green with
the concern of environment protecting and carbon footprint reduction. There are many
measures which can be adopted by leading companies to benefit the environment in
terms of saving resources, electricity, paper and people. For going green at work,
various options may be used to reduce waste in equipment usage, particularly for the
standalone printers which are the major cause of waste in offices.
On September 2013, Fuji Xerox held a
seminar in Hong Kong which focused on
how businesses can cope with these issues
without scarifying revenue, productivity or
even security. In this case, the Japanese
firm presented to attendees (including
CESL Asia staff) some simple green
solutions such as applying techniques Personal printer
which, basically, centralize all the printing concern. For instance, they do not want
in multiple printing areas, creating the printed documents are viewed by
printing zones to different users so that others in the central printer. This remains
they can use a central unit instead of one of the main reasons why there is still
personal printers within the office. much resistance in replacing individual
printers by central units.
It is a common
practice that, at However, is it that difficult to overcome this
least for most issue? Not really, it is as simple as
modern implementing a security system based on
businesses, senior ID batch, meaning that you have to scan it
management staff to pick up your documents (one of the
members often solutions presented by Fuji Xerox). “The
have their own first step involves convincing senior
printers near their management that the printer next to you is
own printers near a waste and you got to convince them that
their working they will still have the same security, the
desks due to same convenience with these central units;
confidentiality and you have to increase the amount of the
Central unit
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2 ISSUE
nd
Our People Development
Why go green at work?
Nowadays, businesses are getting more aware of the importance of going green with
the concern of environment protecting and carbon footprint reduction. There are many
measures which can be adopted by leading companies to benefit the environment in
terms of saving resources, electricity, paper and people. For going green at work,
various options may be used to reduce waste in equipment usage, particularly for the
standalone printers which are the major cause of waste in offices.
On September 2013, Fuji Xerox held a
seminar in Hong Kong which focused on
how businesses can cope with these issues
without scarifying revenue, productivity or
even security. In this case, the Japanese
firm presented to attendees (including
CESL Asia staff) some simple green
solutions such as applying techniques Personal printer
which, basically, centralize all the printing concern. For instance, they do not want
in multiple printing areas, creating the printed documents are viewed by
printing zones to different users so that others in the central printer. This remains
they can use a central unit instead of one of the main reasons why there is still
personal printers within the office. much resistance in replacing individual
printers by central units.
It is a common
practice that, at However, is it that difficult to overcome this
least for most issue? Not really, it is as simple as
modern implementing a security system based on
businesses, senior ID batch, meaning that you have to scan it
management staff to pick up your documents (one of the
members often solutions presented by Fuji Xerox). “The
have their own first step involves convincing senior
printers near their management that the printer next to you is
own printers near a waste and you got to convince them that
their working they will still have the same security, the
desks due to same convenience with these central units;
confidentiality and you have to increase the amount of the
Central unit
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