IT Professionals in Paper Pile-Up

IT professionals are straining under the weight of thousands of tons of unread documents as we print out and pile up more paperwork than ever before, according to new research from printer experts Lexmark. The profession came second in a poll of the untidiest desks in Britain.

Lexmark conducted the research as part of a campaign for more responsible printing in the workplace. £230million worth of printed paper is wasted in British businesses every year, with one in five sheets lost on desks, left on the printer or binned within five minutes.

Compared to other professions IT professionals have the second most untidy desks in the
country. They are also the most likely of the professions to eat at their desks.
The ‘paperweight pile-up’ adds up to 2,354 million sheets of wasted paper in offices across the UK and a 2.5 kilometers tall in-tray, weighing almost 12,000 tons, as much as 800 doubledecker buses. *

A spring clean is urgently required. Just 4% of IT professionals claimed to have a clutter-free desk, despite almost half of them (40%) acknowledging that an untidy desk leads to high levels of stress.

“Paperweight pile-up means businesses are wasting a fortune and losing productivity.” Said Giovanni Giusti, managing director, Lexmark UK.

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