Is Paperless Office a Reality or Not?

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.

Yes, we definitely need to shift to a paperless world as it is more or less a compensation to save the environment, to save the Earth. Today development has reached a massive scale and in order to save the nature from the hazards of print, we have to make a shift, we have to move to the world which would be free of printed matter. Yes, to a paperless world!

As much as 100 hectares of forest land is cut can daily to meet the demands of newspaper agencies. If this rate of deforestation continues, by the next half of the century about 30, 000 species of plant will be extinct.

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.

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

Paperless office is a reality because, with in minimum time we can do maximum work. Due to the absence of files there will be enough space in the office.

Though the topic sounds bit cool but it is not that easy to apply this thought in real. I think no matter how much progress we have made or are making or will make we need the paper in some specific areas. If we consider the educational bodies, there we find that paper is really needed to provide the students with all of their certificates and results which are ultimately needed to earn a job for him in this digital world.

For the case of publication industries, though we are in the era of e-books and digital magazines but still one can not deny the real charm of reading a printed books. At the end if we are really concerned about the environment then I think it is better to increase the no of trees rather than to cut our needs because whatever we will do we need the natural resources in form or another.

Hello everyone, my name is Raj.

My views on the paperless office is that in this world where everything is changing rapidly so the paperless office is acceptable and inevitable. Since almost every office work which can be done on paper can be done on a computer or say electronically. This system provides a secure and time-saving method of doing official work. By this we can send a large amount of data from one part of world another part will one click and almost all the office are using this. It reduces the chance of corruption that can be done on paper but by this, almost every one of the documents can be verified electronically. So this is system is good to accept. There are some issues relating to the working extent of this system it can be done with the help of internet and at least general knowledge of working on the computer a d in rural there is a lack of both the facilities. So the government has to work on that issue.

Ofcourse its a reality,but up to certain extent. We should not be totally dependent on the computer to get the jobs done and it is also the fact that at some points like "appointment letters", Property paper like stamp paper and all, it requires physical existence, logically it would only be faster, but to get the job done it must be physically present at your sight.

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.

Paperless office to some extent is fine. but i dont think so it is applicable to all industries, departments.