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University of Chicago implements CyberShift and saves 8,000 pieces of paper per month.
October 10, 2009
UChicago Time to Replace Paper Timecards
Say goodbye to that time clock and paper time card and hello to UChicago Time, the University’s new method for reporting time for all biweekly employees. The new web-based application will allow biweekly employees to report their work time each day, report and schedule their absences, and track their accruals. Monthly employees will also utilize the system to report absences and track their sick, vacation, and personal day accruals. Although ongoing testing is still being performed, the system is now officially in use for Residence Halls and Commons, the Comptroller’s Office, University Human Resources Management (UHRM), and by several employees in the Biological Sciences Division (BSD) Dean’s Office. Plans are to rollout the new system to NSIT by the end of May.
How It WorksHourly employees will log in to the system daily via a web application to clock in at the beginning of their shift and clock out at the end of their shift–some employees may report time by swiping their University ID cards through a time clock device. Each schedule is imported into the system according to scheduled hours, allowing the system to “approve” the time automatically. In the event that an employee does not clock to schedule, he or she will need approval from a manager or supervisor. When the pay period ends, the time information will be sent to the Payroll Department to process the employee’s paycheck.
Monthly employees, on the other hand, will not record their daily hours. Instead, they will record
Every year, nearly 900,000,000 trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills.
September 9, 2009
lt takes 4 tons of wood (approximately 24 trees) to make 1 ton of paper
(http://www.conservatree.com/learn/EnviroIssues/TreeStats.shtml)
One ton of paper will make approximately 200,000 paper time cards or 8,330 per tree.
(http://www.greenlightoffice.com/office/stationery/93339-tops-job-cards-time-cards-8-5-x-3-5-sheet-size-manila.html)
According to the United States Department of Labor, there were a total of 135,185,230 employed in the United States in May of 2008.
(http://data.bls.gov/oes/search.jsp)
Therefore, taking these numbers into account, if only 10% of the employees in the United States use 1 paper time card per week. The number of trees used for paper time card production per year would be in excess of:
84,000 Trees each year in the U.S. Alone
It is estimated that there are 6,700,000,000 people on earth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population)
If we estimate that only 15% of the total population of the world is gainfully employed and only 10% of those are still using 1 paper time card per week (100,500,000). The number of trees used for paper time card production worldwide per year would be in excess of:
627,000 Trees per year Worldwide
Nearly half of the trees cut in North America go to paper making.
According to an article by Conservatree, “Nearly half of the trees cut in North America go to papermaking. Paper companies cite lower percentages, claiming that most of the trees are cut for lumber to make buildings, furniture and other non-paper products. However, the lumber and paper industries work closely together. A significant part of the tree cannot be used for lumber and is chipped, instead, for papermaking. While some of this collaboration between the lumber and paper industries represents a good way to use what otherwise would be “waste” from resource extraction (branches, stumps, “forest residue,” sawdust), trees are also being cut for papermaking when they’re
