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Reduce Paper and Accelerate Your Firm’s Green Initiative
Paper Is Everywhere Increasingly, businesses are “going green” and trying to reduce paper consumption as they strive to demonstrate their commitment to the environment, finances, and social impact. While environment-conscious technology has accelerated in other fields, records management practices have remained stuck in the past.
If John Hancock were signing the Declaration of Independence today, there’s a good chance he wouldn’t use pen and ink. While the Hancock method — physically marking a document to show assent — has been around for hundreds of years, technology has changed the way we sign documents, improving both data security and efficiency.
The arrival of a “paperless future” has been predicted for decades, yet the average American still uses more than 700 pounds of paper every year. Even as the information technology revolution has transformed the way companies operate, most office workers still print 10,000 pages annually, which amasses to a total of 12 trillion pages each and every year.