Paperless office.

[Ian Robinson]

What ever happened to it ?

[mithrandir]

They used stripper and then painted the walls?

We'll never have a paperless office as long as accountants, lawyers, and the tax office demand hard copy, and softcopy readers aren't as cheap, disposable and convenient as real books and paper.

[bojan]

If by paper you meant a non-rewritable media on which the information is stored to be displayed permanently, then paper-less office is never-to-be.
Even if we use soft-copy readers, this is is the same thing in principle as paper.. only different materials are used to manufacture it

[Barrykgerdes]

History shows that "Hard copy" (chiselled in stone) is nearly permanent. Older paper has occasionally survived. Mylar punched tapes and cards etc., last a while but who can read MFM hard disks, 8"Floppies these days.

Barry

[DavidU]

I have more paperwork than ever in my office. Anyone want some paperwork?

[okiscopey]

The paperless office will happen soon after the paperless toilet.

[Ric]

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Good one Mike

[Nesti]

We would use far less paper if we went back to ledgers etc.

BTW, I can create on PC, but cannot edit properly on PC...I always miss things...so I edit on hard copy.

[Inmykombi]

Its funny for me to see a thread with this title.
I am always having a whinge about the "paperless office".

I tried many times to save paper ( goodness knows the amount of junk mail we receive far surpasses any savings I alone could make ).

However, I still tried, and here is an example, from which you may get a laugh.

Being an Electrical Technician, I used to have service jobs sent to me via fax.

ie: 1 x piece of paper.

I thought I could get smart you see, so I aksed the company who faxed jobs to me, to instead send my jobs via email .

However , when I needed to print out the jobs from the email sent, it printed out on 3 x bits of paper instead of 1 as it used to via fax....
1 x for the header, 1 x for the job and 1 x with something across the bottom of the page that I didnt need anyway.

I tried to make the emailed jobs smaller to fit on one sheet, but the stupid machine printed the email on one sheet and then spat out a 2nd page still with nothing on it except for a few meanigless letters etc at the bottom of the page.

What chance do we have with the paperless office I ask....:P

Now I just give up and only print when absolutely necessary, and make note pads for work notes out of the otherwise wasted paper, so at least it has a 2nd life of sorts.


geoffro