The myth of green and paperless office may still be with us but there are today new technologies corporate organizations can deploy to significantly reduce paper use in order to cut cost and become more environmentally-friendly. This study determined the extent organizations in Enugu Capital City deploy new office technologies for reducing paper use. The population comprised 186 employees made up of 130 office managers and 56 IT professionals. The entire population was used. The instrument was

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... structured questionnaire validated by three experts while reliability was established using Chronbach Alpha which yielded a high reliability co-efficient of 0.87. Two research questions were formulated to guide the study. Data collected were analyzed to answer the research questions using mean and standard deviation, while z-test was used to test two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The major findings of the study showed that the organizations still rely heavily on physical paper instead of deploying new office technologies to reduce paper use. Based on the findings, it was recommended, inter-alia, that business organizations should, as matter of policy, take concrete steps to convert their paper documents to electronic platforms for economy, greater efficiency, and greener environment.