Is a publishing professional with more than twenty years of

Chapter 14
how to 
Control  
paper Flow

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here does the time go?
You’re  spending  from  half  to  70  percent  of  your 
working time dealing with paper—writing it, reading 
it, filing it, looking through it for another paper.
That’s
 where the time goes.
The “paperless office,” the idea that office automation would 
make  physical  paper  documents  redundant,  was  predicted  by 
BusinessWeek
 as early as 1975. Yet, we can all agree that it’s a 
myth; the use of e-mail alone in an organization causes an average 
40 percent increase in paper consumption.
If you’re ever going to get control of your time—which is to say 
your life—you’re going to have to control the paper flood.
What to do? Here are ten suggestions to help manage paper flow.