I run a law practice and a couple of businesses. I am paperless. I can work from anywhere. Granted, the fact that I have no employees makes this easier.
More and more I have gone paperless at home.
It is much easier to file and find files, rather than documents.
Most of my bills — cable, utilities, etc. — are paperless. Payments register almost instantaneously. [My local Post Office has a history of losing mail.]
User manuals are easy to find and read in PDF format.
Just remember to back things up! If it is worth keeping, it is worth backing up.
I actually print out, maybe, 2 to 3 pages a month.
The paperless office was going to be done with telecommuting.
Like I said at the beginning. The only way you’re going to have a Paperless Office, is to have a Printerless Office, and not until.
Back in the day some bright soul whose name I forget now said, “We will have the paperless office the day after we have the paperless bathroom.”
Things disappear on the Internet. I print documentation when I write.
“Decades into the digital age, the paperless office still eludes humanity”
i knew the minute that B&W xerographic copy machines morphed into inexpensive office/personal printers, that office paper would explode instead of being eliminated ...
‘Cause lawyers...
Back in the mid 1990’s, United Parcel Service made the decision to go paperless. Deliveries, records, employee info, etc., because technology, go green. Today the use of paper there has exceeded 20 fold that of the 90’s. Go figure.
A bunch of trees gave their lives so we could buy a house.
Ask Hitlery Rotten Clinton why she and her staffed printed out difficult to search paper hardcopies of “archived” emails and wiped everything from her servers.
Tsk tsk, liberals.
Be aware that there are paperless toilets
Or, if you just want a paperless toilet seat
https://www.houzz.com/product/103064205-contemporary-toilet-seats
Spend $1500 and start saving trees.
Yes, I know, everybody reading this does their own taxes. But a significant portion of the population pays somebody else, and these documentation requirements are annual evidence of how our government has gotten involved in just about every phase of our lives, and since your government does not trust you, you need a receipt for just about everything. And don't get me started on the small business guys who jam every piece of paper they touched during the year into a shopping bag or some other enclosure "just in case the tax guy needs it".
Of course, we scan the actual required docs and give the paper back to the client. So are we paperless? Sort of.
What happens if something happens in outer space and negates everything digital? Yea for paper and things you’ve saved on paper. (and paper cash/metal money, too)
I don’t even know how to connect to the printer at work. When I think “I think I will print this out,” I then think “well now I have to figure out how to connect to the printer.” The need for a printed document has so far never risen above that bar.
Paperless office? The digital age produces more paper than ever.
Print out the PDF, mark it up, scan it back in, shred the paper copy, then the other person dies the same. More trees, not less.
As for big business, there is a savings. They used to have to pay to print the paper copy they sent me. Now I have to pay for the paper and ink (at retail prices instead of the wholesale rates they were getting). So costs have been transferred and multiplied.