A stack of in-baskets on your desk is not a sign of productivity. In fact, it probably means that you and your co-workers still spend time shuffling paper around!
How much wasted time?
How much paper wasted performing tasks from another era?
How many miles does paper travel around your office in a year?
Printing all these documents and putting them in peoples’ in-baskets before filing, distributing, or archiving them is not a process that saves time. And it certainly doesn’t speed up your payment cycle.
