While we are trying to use as little paper as possible in our home office, the reality is that we are not quite there yet. Is it really possible to go completely paperless?
The Paperless Home Office
For us the answer is yes, but not easily. The NY times reports about Chris Uhlik, an engineering director at Google who has taken his family paperless by gradually scanning all his reference books and dealing with lists, letters and calendars all digitally. The end result is the ability to search everything without having to physically shuffle through papers. Also, if sitting around for days on end scanning your photos and other documents is not something that you are particularly interested in, companies like Scan Cafe will do it for you. The paperless home office is now within reach , you just make sure that you have a plan to back up all this data if you go down this route.
-via The New York Times
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we are "paperless" at work. that's my main job - the scanning. it seems to me, as it is this way at work, that there are things you need the orignials for, not just a copy of it on your computer. like a lease, maybe? maybe not a lease, but i'm sure something....
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elizabeth-
I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but there are, I'm sure as well. But the good thing would be that they fit in a small box with your other important papers like birth certificates.
I just wish more companies across the board offered the option of electronic billing (without having to set up automatic withdrawl from your bank account). Doctors bills are a big one for me that just seem to proliferate paper. That would save the time of having to scan things and save them...you could just go straight to the save step!
view kate's profile
what gets me iare billers like the water board here in birmingham. you CAN pay it online, through there website, with a $2 fee because it's through western union. the WATER BOARD is discouraging paying electronically.
view elizabeth in AL's profile
What happens with scanning quite often is that you can more easily cc more people on things, and if they're all Luddites, they may all print it out and create even more paper than ever. I think the paperless office will never really quite happen.
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