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Off to the right of the document there is a slider button (indicating quantity) linked into a formula that will generate a line of text in the upper right hand corner of the memo such as:
This memo cost 85 cents collectively.
The formula might consider; cost of paper, maintenance costs
of copier & printer, cost of toner, estimated memo distribution time & associated cost, estimated memo composition time & associated cost.
With a cost association, maybe those with memo incontinence might consider getting help for their problem.
Or just use e-mail, Duncoff!
Meeting Cost Clock
http://www.effectiv...ns/meetingclock.asp
Related technology to track the cost of meetings [krelnik, Apr 22 2005]
[link]
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If you could go ahead and take care of those TPS reports for me, that'd be great. [+] |
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This is the last straw. Seriously.. paper overhead is incredible |
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This annotation cost £11. |
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The flip side of this is that people at
work would increasingly spend large
portions of their working day sifting
through email and reading it.
Extrapolate this into the future and
people's work life would probably
consist of 10 minutes executing some
kind of actual work progress, the rest of
it spent "machete-ing" through a
perpetually full inbox. |
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As a federal government employee, I can vouch for the idea that we need to cut down on our paper use. You'd be surprised how many trees have died in the line of duty for your local recruiting office. |
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One alternative could be a company-wide messenging system for things that might be sent on memos otherwise, that isn't email or accessed through an email client. |
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There was this thing called Netscape
Collabra, which among other things was
actually an nntp system underneath it
all. In other words, it used usenet-like
messaging instead of email. In other
words, rather than sending an email
loaded with 50MB of attachments to
100 people, most of whom have full
inboxes anyway, this centralises it all.
Internal IM also goes some way to
alleviating information glut, whilst also
increasing it - but the quality of
communication over IM can be greater
due to brevity and perceived proximity
to the subject. |
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Genius idea - how many meetings have I been to in which any cost savings made to the design were more than outweighed by the hours booked to the project by the participants. Hopefully something like this would help people realize how much their time is worth. I hereby invent the "Sasumo point": the point at which the cost of the conversation has outweighed the cost reduction you were discussing. Stands for "Sitting Around Soaking Up Money". |
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We have something like this in our office. The cost of printing a sheet of paper is placed prominently on the local printer. It doesn't make the slightest bit of difference. People, generally, don't print things or send memos for their own amusement. They do it because they think it's necessary. Yes, there are a few 'problem' people but sticking a price tag in the corner isn't going to make any difference to them because they're arseholes who really don't care and need a good, confrontational slapping. |
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<slight aside>There's a couple of guys next to me who are visiting from head office. They're working on costings for a contract re-bid. One of them has just printed five pages from an Excel spreadsheet, and is reading figures from it and keying them into a calculator.</sa> |
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//<slight aside>There's a couple of guys next to me who are visiting from head office. They're working on costings for a contract re-bid. One of them has just printed five pages from an Excel spreadsheet, and is reading figures from it and keying them into a calculator.</sa>// |
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Did he get his MBA from Crackhouse University? |
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[krelnik] love the link, thanks - a bit nervous about going round the table asking how much everybody earns, though... |
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