by Stuart Deavall | Printers | 0 comments
We’ve all done it, haven’t we?
(Of course, if my boss is reading, I most definitely haven’t, ever! Scout’s honour!)
Whether it’s because we’ve not got a printer at home, or it costs too much, or it’s just a helluva lot more convenient- there’s a good chance that, at some point in our working lives, we’ve all used the office printer to sneakily print off a personal document.
An email from a friend. Directions to that place you’re travelling to at the weekend. Gig tickets. All these are examples are the kind of things some people might print off when they get a spare five minutes at work, fold it up, and take it home with them at the end of the day.
What’s the harm, right? Well, that’s probably an argument best left between an employee, an employee’s conscience, and their employer! But what we’ve worked out at TonerGiant is that printing personal documents at work are costing UK private sector businesses upwards of £40 million each year!
Yep! You can see our full list of calculations in this PDF , but to give you a snapshot of what we’ve discovered:
And what’s more, that £40 million figure is likely to be a lot lower than the actual amount! That’s because we’ve not accounted for those people in the research we based our calculations on that didn’t admit to doing shifty personal printing at work, and those that may do it more than once a day! Not to mention the wear and tear effect and resulting maintenance of office printers and the costs that these incur.
Check out our infographic .
Employees printing off that Nigella recipe to take home for their tea, or their budget airline boarding passes for their holiday (which I’ve personally witnessed at a previous workplace), are just examples of a number of ways in which businesses appear to be losing control of their printing.
An alarming 69% of organisations don’t actually know how much their printing costs them! So apart from personal printing, where does all that money go and why?
In short, printing is causing headaches for finance directors up and down the country.
There are ways you can prevent your office printer from hemorrhaging more money than a badly thought out task on The Apprentice, both in terms of combating the amount you spend on printing your employees’ personal documents for them, and other types of printing expenditure.
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I have been working in the printing industry with TonerGiant for over 18 years, and I'm the resident technical printer expert, helping people fix their printer problems for over 16 years. I have taken part in many training courses with HP, Samsung, Brother, Canon and Xerox to further my knowledge, and I'm also the Digital Marketing Manager at TonerGiant.co.uk (degree qualified).
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