Is Paperless Office a Reality or Not?

Well, today "global warming" is the issue that is very much talked about. Deforestation being one of the major reasons for it. Looking at the recent scenario, government all over the globe have started trying hard to "save paper" and thus "save environment" and "save trees" through various campaigns.

So imagining a paperless office can be a reality to a great extent. The companies can try not to use paper as much as possible and try and use computers to store data. Retrieving of data from a computer also takes hardly some seconds as compared to paper where all the files are need to be gone through to find one important data.

Thus offices can take up a step of going paperless as much as possible which will make office work easy, save time and also save paper and thus save environment to great extent.

In my point of view paper less work necessary but not every where. It is true that we store our data in computer but it is not necessary that it may be safe so whenever its required we use other wise we do not. If we use paperless work so it may be profit we will get such as we save more trees.

Hi All, I am a Software Developer and in my Organization all most all the work are done on Computer.
There are some points on a Paper-less Office Concept.
1. It cant be implemented in every office. I mean it depends on type of the work.
for ex: Sending a soft copy of receipt is not possible to every one because 70% of population who are living in village or small cities are not using internet every time.
2. We cant attain any goal 100% practically.
3. I disagree that data on computer are not safe. Hard-disk are so robust that in flood or in fire they are safe. Even there are redundant data replica so handle the worst condition.
4. But yes every organization should attain this goal as much as possible.

According to me paper less office is not a myth.We can send communication through mails.We can store the data on storage devices.This can be possible in a non-IT company also.Just they need a little training and small technical instruments.It will be surely a drastic as well as cost effective change.But once it is configured, it will be a life time thing.As well as it will be a Go Green attitude.There will be lesser tree cuts and more oxygen in the air and less global warming.

As far as my views are concerned I think completely paperless office is myth because it is not possible to completely change the system. As you listen the dictum “Rome was not built in a day”. Now a days, due to availability of computer less work done on paper because all the information are available on computer through internet. There are different kind of devices are available in the market like CDs, pendrives etc. For storage data. This cause less dump of files in the office. Branches does not look like mess. Any kind of data can be search on the computer which is not possible on paper file so it take less time to find out the data. It save time and money also.

But fully paperless office is not possible because afterall computer is a machine and caused misplace of important data, data can be corrupt on system and might be met with an accident. So, it is necessary to keep a paper file also so that unnecessary inconvenience may not occur at the time of urgency. Other thing is this, everybody cannot afford computer and internet and some important letters needs in paper form.

According to me paper less office is not reality. Following are my viewe to reduce paper usages.

1. Before taking print out it should be checked (print preview) to avoid paper usage.

2. Personal documents should not be taken in office.

3. Every employee should have limit to take print out for each day.

I think, paperless office is not reality. Because paper work is most important our life. I think we can't handle a job in the office without paper. Some times we feel tiered to do work in computers and other electric machines so can be relaxed we use paper work. The days are moving use of paper is diminishing I agree the all data can store in the form of soft copies in PC's. But we can;t totally avoid the use of paper. It has own importance in our life. Important business letter, appointment letters in the paper form. If office can paper less many people have job less like postmaster. So paper less office is not reality it is also important.

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.

No, Paperless office is not reality because every office required some paper works like bill of goods which it supply or purchases from other company ect.

I think we can't handle the job in the office without paper. Some times we feel tired by doing in the computer and it may be electric supply is not there for a some time, then we can realize we need papers also. Other wise the work couldn't be finished within the fixed time.

So I think paperless office can't be reality.