October is a fortnight away and with it Halloween! Did you know that even amidst the spooky cloud cover and vegetative decay, your office can happily help the environment? The cycle of the seasons is natural and worth celebrating, and the “decay” of the foliage is just another word for “compost.” The leaves may beRead more

Autumn is such a bizarre season, painted with gray clouds and colorful copses. Punctuated by feasts, elections, Halloween, and winter prep. It is a time of transformation. Sometimes, it is a time of shedding old habits and shifting priorities. The leaves may be turning red, orange, and yellow, but there’s no reason your office can’tRead more

Imagine this world. The calm and meditative silence that remains after the constant hum of a hungry community paper shredder ceases to exist. The end of the corporate waste paper basketball league as the ladder collapses department by department due to a lack of suitable equipment. Stark sentries of armored metal file cabinets disappearing; inRead more

When employees within your company hit that “save” button, where do their files go? In the old days, when technology was seen as a productivity tool, the only path for that document might have been to the user’s hard drive. Data and information stayed private and quite vulnerable to loss, theft, and equipment failure. Now,Read more

Summer represents the midpoint of the year and, in many industries, it’s a good time to think about the pain points you’ve seen thus far in ‘16 and what you want to change for ‘17, either the actual year or the fiscal year. The latter could be starting this summer or fall based on yourRead more

Pop culture is riddled with references to how summertime should be spent, from Will Smith (“There’s an air of love and of happiness”) to Grease (“Summer lovin, had me a blast…”) and all points in between. In many parts of North America, the weather’s better — and there’s a natural inclination to go outside andRead more

Last November, we posted about six ways your office could stay green during the winter. Ideally you took some heed there, because now it’s time for the summer version. How can your office stay green and be a bit more environmentally-friendly during the hot months? Summer Fridays This is a two-birds-with-one-stone concept. Summer Fridays areRead more

“April showers bring May flowers.” We’ve all heard this since we were kids, and it couldn’t be more true. What that cute little rhyme doesn’t tell you is that April brings much more than showers—it also brings storms and floods. Storms and floods that can absolutely ruin your business if you don’t have the properRead more

In 1975, an article called “The Office of the Future” was published in Business Week. In this article, the author describes this distant office of 1995, explaining, “[There will be a] TV-display terminal with keyboard sitting on the desk. I’ll be able to call up documents from my files on the screen, or by pressingRead more

Today marks the one day a year when AIIM urges businesses and individuals to spend an entire day without using or wasting a single piece of paper. It is adequately called World Paper Free Day. What that means is no printing, no scribbling down needless notes, no tossing pieces of paper that could have beenRead more