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HARD COPIES STILL PREFERRED AT WORK
An extensive survey by print specialist Oki Systems, shows printing still plays an important role in office life – with many businesses having little control over who is printing what – and why. Out of 2,000 respondents, 92% print daily, with 45% printing more than 10 pages each day. In addition, 79% use office equipment
to print personal documents, with nine per cent claiming to do it at least once a day. The main reason given was the lack of a printer at home (38%). The survey quashes talk of
the paperless office, with 59% of respondents citing a need for hard copy evidence as a reason for printing. However, Oki says organisations
can cut the paper and energy costs of printing with a print strategy. These measures can be simple, such
as ensuring that for every-day work, double-sided printing is the default option or replacing ageing printers with new multifunction devices that use less energy and enable paper-free document flow such as scan and fax to email.
PAY GAP LESS IN WOMEN-LED JOBS
Women in professions dominated by women earn more on average than those in careers dominated by men. A study, by Warwick Business School,
University of Cambridge and Lakehead in Canada, found the gap between men and women’s pay was larger in countries where they worked together. The biggest inequality in pay was in
Japan, with Slovenia the fairest. Women in the Czech Republic,
Austria and the Netherlands all fared badly in comparison to men, while the UK’s gap was higher than average. Warwick Business School’s Dr Girts
Racko attributes the smaller gap in female professions to the fact that when there are fewer men in an occupation, women have more chance to get to the top and earn more.
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