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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
The paperless office
Business Week takes a good look at the benefits of going paperless in "The New Push to Get Rid of Paper," by Arik Hesseldahl.
Three decades after "paperless office" entered the business lexicon, the financial and environmental need to reduce paper is greater than ever,
While the author does a good job examining the financial and environmental benefits of going paperless, and ties them together nicely, there is one other financial benefit of going paperless he doesn't mention.
That would be the time-saving factor of convenience of staff having all documents at their fingertips immediately. I'm thinking in terms of not having to make multiple trips to the file room several times a day.
Extend this concept between the law office and the courthouse, and the savings can add up quickly. Federal courts have already made the transition to electronic document filing. It's just a matter of time before state courts catch on and do the same thing.
Read the entire article: "The New Push to Get Rid of Paper," and the accompanying 1975 article, "The Office of the Future | An in-depth analysis of how word processing will reshape the corporate office." It's interesting to note the dominance of Xerox and IBM in 1975.
• Posted by: Marie Carnes at 12:10 PM
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