Is Paperless Office a Reality or Not?

Paperless office cannot be a reality, because legal works are being done everyday. They have to certify their process.

In my view, Paperless office can be a reality in coming 5 -10 years and it may also be reality in present time in some MNCs. As per my view, paperless office is one where day to day works are being done by means of technologies without wasting unnecessary papers. Offices without files and folders can't work properly.

Its always become important to keep a hard copy of important or confidential documents. Today's in every government organization, email is considered official which helps in getting the work and decision very fast but still we receive or deliver the hard copies of important documents that we already got through mail. So these things can't be avoided instantly.

So, in my opinion we should avoid wastage of paper as possible as we can and make our offices a paperless surroundings and contribute a little in making the world eco- friendly and pollution free.

In my opinion that's a very good innovation in business. It could help to your effective at work, speed up the processes, less hard copies, more ecological and so on.

In my view, paper work is very important in our day to day life. We cannot imagine our life without paper. Even a school KG students requires the paper. Paper work is good for our eyes and health than the computer works and it create many physical problems.

Hi this is Jitendra kumar,

As per my views on this topics are, Yes there should be paper less offices in the every part of country. Because we live in the progressive world in terms of Technology, Culture, life style, etc. These all categories are going to improve day by day, so why we will concerned the prevalent outdated method in life using of paper instead of the latest technologies, these technologies become part of every individual one which gives us not only enhancement some of extent in your life but also make each and everyone feel easy in very aspect of life.

The Advantage of paperless offices are following:

1. First one it will be one time expenditure.

2. Digitized world become more reliable for each and every one to access the information at any time from any where.

3. Less paper work will be increased the more and reliable work.

4. The loss and damage of the data will be less.

5. The cost of the paper will be overcome. Which will be helpful to stop the cutting of the trees and will also be useful to make environment friendly and pollution free for us.

6. Digitization world make you free to access your data any time with reliability.

7. The work will be more progressive in terms of time, cost and manpower etc.

8. The paper work also reduce the space in the offices.

The digital India will be more progressive India.

Jai Bharat.

Every important details had to be in hard copy. Lets take an example photography. It is more valuable in hard copy than soft copy.

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.

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.

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".

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.