As of July 1, 2008, we will no longer be sending paper billing or have checks as a payment option.
Economic effects are:
Cost of postage
Cost of checks
Cost of ink
Cost of billing paper and print out paper
Fuel cost for bank runs
Cost of power to print
Environmental effects are:
CO2 omissions from both delivery vehicles, vehicles used to transport checks to bank for deposit, and foresting equipment;
The U.S. paper industry is the second largest consumer of energy and uses more water to produce a ton of product than any other industry;
In the U.S., we have lost 95 percent of our old growth forests and it takes 3 tons of wood to produce 1 ton of paper;
All employees of Jigsaw Design telecommute. This system increases productivity and lowers costs to our clients.
Economic effects are:
We keep our overhead to a minimum (pretty close to zero), which means the client is only paying for service rather than our rent, energy and any other cost associated with office space.
Productivity increases by 20% by eliminating commute time for employees. Employees will work longer when they are less stressed when not having to deal with traffic in addition to being in comfortable surroundings.
We charge per project not by hour. We pay also our employees per project and not by hour, which encourages staff to finish projects sooner and move on to next project.
Environmental effects are:
ZERO CO2 omissions from our employees having to commute to work;
ZERO energy used to power, heat or cool an office space;
ZERO waste that goes with any office space;
All equipment used for the purposes of design and production are energy-efficient products, which includes computers, monitors and any server technology.
Economic effects are:
Less energy costs
Environmental effects are:
Less energy waste
The less energy we use, the less air pollution we generate from the burning of fossil fuels at power plants, which contributes to smog, acid rain, and global warming.