Celebrate Earth Day: Nix the Pay Stub
To celebrate Earth Day, the CBC’s HR department is asking employees to switch to electronic pay stubs.
Every year the CBC prints and distributes 338,000 paper pay stubs, at a cost to the corporation of $44,000 a year. The goal is to cut the number of paper pay stubs in half by May 31, 2009. The electronic pay stubs will be available online.
To switch to electronic pay stubs all you have to do is send an email, for the email address and more information go here. Everyone who makes the switch will be entered in a draw to win an 8G iPod Touch, or four $25 gift certificates to the Keg restaurant, oh, and you’ll also get the sweet feeling of moral superiority for having done something good for the environment.
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We should get rid of our water coolers as well. All those huge water jugs being trucked in and then positioned right next to taps in the kitchen is wasteful and incurs needless costs. The tap water is fine
How is using an electronic pay stub saving the environment? It’s not like the physical ones are printed on a non recyclable material?
I can recycle my pay stubs thus save the environment.
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It takes a approximately 13 oz of water to make one sheet of paper. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. Recycling paper incurs even more water usage. Even if you recycle all your pay stubs, it’s still better to switch to the online version.
You work in an area that still has water coolers? Lucky. They got rid of ours, AND there’s no tap or fountain.
I doubt you’ll suggest I go buy a bottle of water…. maybe I can drink from the toilet, like my cat.
I’ll do it if it will save a job, but it won’t.
How about all the newspapers wasted in at the CBC?
Most paper have electronic editions.
Bean counters just want to save money, nothing to do with the environment.
More “green washing”.
Big problem with the way they’re implimenting this.
There is no way to have your timecards electronically delivered to you. You have to wade through the HR website to try and find it to figure out what and why you were paid this week.
I’d sign up if your pay stub was emailed to you, but in the mean time I’ll stick with the paper copy. It’s just way to big of a pain to switch over.
You should take ours. We have water coolers and taps. I just use the taps.
I have a laptop with Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox. I can’t access many of the services on the web. The website supports IE6 ONLY. I figured out on my own how to use Firefox to do my etimecards but even after contacting support, cannot access the paystub feature.
With IE8 now available and Firefox emerging as a viable alternative to IE can we bring these websites up to date? I can access my banking website to watch my balance go down down down. I can access Great West Life without issue. I can even access my whole tax life on the CIRA site. Why can’t I access the pay stubs with the most up to date browser available?
For what it’s worth, the BC Public Service cut paper paycheques for its staff of approximately 30,000 last month.
It’s actually refreshing to see even government taking small steps normally seen only in the private sector.