I was a doc reviewer in a commercial organisation, checking both technical reports and commercial writing (bids and contracts). I recommended to authors that t

I was a doc reviewer in a commercial organisation, checking both technical reports and commercial writing (bids and contracts). I recommended to authors that they should use active voice because it usually made it easier to explicitly identify the intended actors and avoid ambiguity about who should do what. E.g. a bid author should prefer "$COMPANY will do X" rather than "X will be done" because it avoids confusion over whether X is a $COMPANY or $CUSTOMER responsibility. Obviously authors could still write "X will be done by $COMPANY" but I found that they would often forget to identify the actor if they chose passive voice.