Challenges of a Paperless Office

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Introduction

Some studies suggest that paper consumption continues to grow unabatedly with severe environmental impacts (Georgesku, Tugui and Dumitriu, 2008).
The use of paper has created modern business bureaucracy, but paper is also an important instrument for critical business agreements.
Most offices have excess papers.
Technologies continue to show that businesses can abandon papers.
Industry professionals predicted ‘the paperless office’ in 1970s.

Introduction

An average office person uses 10000 sheets of copy paper every year.
The USA consumes over 30% of the world’s paper.
More than 40% of wood pulp is used in paper production.
It costs the US over $25-35B in filing, storing, and retrieving paper every year.
On average, people can copy a document up to 9 times.
Over 5% of paper documents get lost and 7.5% are misfiled.

Some facts about paper usages?

Maintaining a paperless office is expensive.
Electronic communications require both parties to have relevant software and hardware.
Most business communications with partners and individual are still paper-based.
Possible costs and loss of productivity when going paperless.
Inability to adopt change policies may hinder the process.
Technological challenges, particularly compatible software, file format, and system stability.
Lack of appropriate skills to use new technologies for paperless office.
Some uses of paper will never disappear.

Challenges of going paperless