1. Turn off your computers, monitors and printers. This sounds like common sense but the vendors have not made this easy. If you are a small company you can do this with a powerstrip. Users won’t use powerstrips? Try this. Have the boss walk around with two types of stickies in the evening. One stickie says thanks for turning off the computer and one says hey you forgot to shut the thing down. You’ll be surprised how fast this helps. If you want you can buy those automatic on and off switches to turn things off. This may not be great for computers that get shut down this way.
2. Make it a pain to print stuff. Remember when you used to have to print to a central printer? What a pain. Renew this practice and you’ll see a rapid drop off in printer usage and supply costs.
3. Have a plan to let employees work at home one day a week. This may not sound easy, but you’ll get happier employees and if you can shut the place down one day a week, there is a lot of money to be saved
