The Paperless Office is a Mirage...or Is It??
Posting after a long time. This was a short essay I had to write for a forum at Infosys. The theme is mentioned in the title :) Papers and Pens have been an integral part of offices throughout the world. They are considered indispensable and until recently, had anyone even mentioned a paperless office, he/she would have been considered a candidate for serious mental evaluation. It is only with the recent advent of IT and its infinite possibilities that people have woken up to the fact that the paperless office could become a reality. However the transition is not easy. Ensuring that the office is 100% paperless would mean making sure that technology is affordable and accessible to all members and a huge influx of support infrastructure. Even if these are available, the functioning of the technology need to be absolutely PERFECT with all dependencies accounted for and with a contingency for all possible issues defined. This is certainly a very tall and seemingly insurmountable orde