{"id":60100,"date":"2019-06-11T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=60100"},"modified":"2019-06-11T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:36:07","slug":"go-paperless-work-prevent-deforestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/go-paperless-work-prevent-deforestation.html","title":{"rendered":"Paperless Work Environments Can Help Curb Deforestation in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Want to play your part in saving the lush green forests that Pakistan has been gifted with? Well, as a corporation, you can take some simple yet effective steps to help save the forests. However, one of the most impactful ways to play your part against deforestation as a corporation is to go paperless at work. Wondering how? Let\u2019s get you started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deforestation in Pakistan\u2014An Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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These Densely Populated Forests Need Our Help to Survive the Bane of Deforestation in Pakistan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Forests cover around 5.1% or 4.5 million hectares of land in Pakistan. Unfortunately, the number is declining rapidly. The rate of deforestation in Pakistan is one of the highest in Asia, with the country losing around 42,000 hectares of forested regions every year. This amounts to an alarming deforestation rate of 2.1 percent! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Can a Paperless Work Environment Help?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A Reduce in the Consumption of Paper Will Automatically Cut Down on the Need for Felling More Trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paper-making industries cut down around 24 trees to make just 1 ton or 900 kilograms of office grade writing and printing paper. Considering that a pack of 500 A4 sized printer papers can weigh around 2 kilograms each, that\u2019s around 450 packs of printer paper. Now consider that an average office worker uses around 10,000 sheets of printer paper in a year. This means that an average employee in an organisation may end up using 20 packs of printer paper every year. That\u2019s a lot, especially when you consider the fact that most of these printed sheets end up in the trash at day\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, technology today has made it very easy to record data, make copies of it, and store it for a lifetime in an online cloud-based server. Unfortunately, everything from bank account details to client investment portfolios and medical records, the information considered most important is still recorded on paper in Pakistan. However, a change can be introduced if you say a firm NO to deforestation in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting up a paperless work environment begins with moving all your data to a central server online, recycling or shredding all records once the data has been recorded digitally, and reducing, if not eliminating, the use of notepads and printer paper in the office. Let\u2019s learn more about the process below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How To Go Paperless at Work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Use Technology to Your Advantage and Convert All Paper-Based Records Into Digitalised Data<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Going paperless isn\u2019t a choice anymore; it\u2019s a necessity that needs to be consciously practised at home and the workplace. As far as corporations are concerned, going paperless at work is a lot easier if the management itself is just as eager to implement paper-saving practices in its daily affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From recording digital minutes of meetings to scanning documents and getting digital receipts, here are some of the top ways to create a paperless work environment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n