Is Paperless Office a Reality or Not?

Well paperless office can be a reality. It will save the accommodation expenditure done for making store rooms in offices. Saves money of keeping chowkidars especially for those stores. And will prevent all anti-silver fishes spray that is being done once in a year.

2-and for all those things for which paper work is must[such as certificates deal papers and requirement applications]. WE CAN USE SYNTHETIC PAPER from which dollars are made. This is durable and weather invariable. I know it can be bit costly but NOTHING AS COMPARED TO PREVENT THE DISTRACTION OF OUR MOTHER NATURE.

I think paperless office is not a reality, even though in today's world all the works are done on computers but still a hard copy in maintained for it. There are lots of risk also in comparison to its benefits, i.e. from hackers. You can take the example of gate 2013 result which was displayed 2 days before than the expected date and it was all done by a hacker so think if a hacker can hack a government site than my be it is possible that he/she could have a change with the mark sheet of students. So, I would like to say that paper less office is good but implementing it fully can be hazardous for the organisation.

Paperless Workplace/ Office is not so far reality. People/ Employees/ Employers/ Organization/ Entrepreneurs are taking advantage to different degree as per their risk taking. Indian Railways/ Government of India and many State Government have already gone ahead. This was possible after successful pilot of e-Office by DARPG, Central Government.

As a part of ISO requirement I had aligned my departmental working towards paperless workplace. Our department is virtually paperless. We do use paper but to a very limited extent. We don't waste the paper & use the used paper even. All our documentation is online with 24/7 access within the company through intranet. Anyone can see the documents from the general area without log in. Internal documents are collaborated by all departmental employees with log in.

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I consider that paper is using in offices to some extent. But we have not eliminated paper totally from our offices. I think offices are doing a right thing. I would like to tell you that before four month I was reading an interview of expert in IT. He was telling that if we put all the data in our laptop or desktop there is always a risk because hackers hack the site and even some non-registered software demolish all the precious data from our tool. So that we have to use paper to keep important data as a record. From this thing we can clearly recognize that offices can not work without paper.

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Well paperless work is more efficient as suppose an office caught by a fire, then if company is working on paper, then all the main data will vanish and company just completely ruined but if paperless work is going in office i.e. via computer. Then its hard copy will be saved. And if at somehow hard disk just crashed then all the companies have distributed database so company can fetch all the lost data from the main server i.e. headquarters so paperless office is reality and if company has strong data integrity then even hackers can't do anything.

Well, paperless office is certainly a reality. With the advancement in technology every document, every work that you do can be saved in a much better way than you can on papers, creating a more efficient system.

Of-course its the reality, due to increasing technologies manpower becoming high, too lazy, they are searching for comfort. In most of the companies they are wasting paper like hell as our own we should adopt some rules and limits on usage of paper. Everything is man made either computer systems and paper. From today each individual should think about usage of paper less and up to some extent. They may be applicable or not applicable to some companies.

Answer to this question is Yes. In my opinion paperless office is not the one where paper is not used at all, it refers to office where continous attempts are made to avoid use of paper or recycling of paper. Hard copy of the all the valuable docs are must for their validation as well as for record keeping. Relying upon computers may lead to destruction of data that can't be retrieve at all and that me lead to huge loss to users in terms of their efforts, time & energy. We should make efforts to maximise the use of soft copies of the data. As the time passes we all will get accustomed to it and that will finally result in "Paperless Office".

Hi, in my work as well as private life we move more and more to a paperless office. I have my most important documents scanned, with professional softwares, which a) scans fast, accurate and make the size of the file smaller b) have OCR (Optical Character Recognition) built in. With the OCR for searchable PDFs, you can easily find files 5 or 10 years old, I can just type a keyword or invoice number to search and get it immediately highlighted in all selected files all phrases where this term is mentioned. In our work, using many certificates, and having requirements for the legal archiving (some documents shall be kept for many years, by law) we managed to agree with the authority that our scanned archive replaced the paper one, since the scan quality and file search is extremely easy. Last but not least paperless office is an environmental friendly solution :).

If you are interested, we use ExactScan Pro (which included OCR) for this. Greetings.

Of Course in this era of Information Technology we people are dreaming paperless offices.

Searching and carrying this paper stuff everywhere is quite hectic. Even though today most of the work we do is online in Government offices, educational institutions we can't move an inch without paper.

This idea sounds very cool but it definitely gonna take some finite time to come in existence. Clerical staff in every organization must computer literate and aware about internet use. This will certainly relieve the people from carrying the burden of documents for like centuries.