Comments on: Five barriers to the paperless office http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/ generation y is at your service. sort of. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/comment-page-1/#comment-328 David Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:13:07 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/#comment-328 Reading on a screen is unpleasant for many people. Especially in law or other areas were the papers need to be scrutinized carefully. Personally I have had to buy 3 new pairs of glasses in 6 months due to moving to a 'paperless office'. Organizations that force people not to print are typically trying to cut costs and certainly won't be buying people new, expensive monitors, or even giving them enough room in their cubicles to position ergonomically and comfortably. Reading on a screen is unpleasant for many people. Especially in law or other areas were the papers need to be scrutinized carefully. Personally I have had to buy 3 new pairs of glasses in 6 months due to moving to a ‘paperless office’. Organizations that force people not to print are typically trying to cut costs and certainly won’t be buying people new, expensive monitors, or even giving them enough room in their cubicles to position ergonomically and comfortably.

]]> By: Tharaka Dayabandara http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Tharaka Dayabandara Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:49:30 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/#comment-180 Matt, You have valid five points. But my personal view is that other than signature and backup problems, other reasons are attitude driven. However as you mentioned networked environment could be a solution, even terminal work stations with centralized storage is more attractive. since there is no difference which terminal you use, your individual settings will be the same. Thus real problem is signatures, proof of presence......etc. Even in e-government environment due to this, it will maintain hard copies. Matt,
You have valid five points.
But my personal view is that other than signature and backup problems, other reasons are attitude driven.
However as you mentioned networked environment could be a solution, even terminal work stations with centralized storage is more attractive. since there is no difference which terminal you use, your individual settings will be the same.
Thus real problem is signatures, proof of presence……etc.
Even in e-government environment due to this, it will maintain hard copies.

]]> By: The Future of Print: Is Print Dead? - yworking.com http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/comment-page-1/#comment-45 The Future of Print: Is Print Dead? - yworking.com Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:17:53 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/#comment-45 [...] already written a bit about electronic books and the notion of a paperless world, but Todd Shultz got me thinking about the topic again in a different light. If you haven’t [...] [...] already written a bit about electronic books and the notion of a paperless world, but Todd Shultz got me thinking about the topic again in a different light. If you haven’t [...]

]]> By: Jason M. Lemkin http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Jason M. Lemkin Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:04:03 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/#comment-37 Matt - on signatures: "The Problem: Let’s start with the obvious one: people need to sign things. And there is no real way — accessible to your average office — to sign a document without printing it out first." This is exactly why we founded EchoSign to solve this (www.echosign.com) and now have over 250,000 using us to do just that -- get a signature electronically in seconds, without having to learn or download anything, for the "average office" ;) Matt – on signatures: “The Problem: Let’s start with the obvious one: people need to sign things. And there is no real way — accessible to your average office — to sign a document without printing it out first.”

This is exactly why we founded EchoSign to solve this (www.echosign.com) and now have over 250,000 using us to do just that — get a signature electronically in seconds, without having to learn or download anything, for the “average office” ;)

]]> By: Michael Bailey http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Michael Bailey Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:20:36 +0000 http://yworking.com/technology/five-barriers-to-the-paperless-office/#comment-36 Hi Matt - I'm glad that a blog post of mine actually made someone think! ;^) You have presented some great ideas and thoughts here. I think that things will continue to evolve the daily office life, and with advances in mind/machine interfaces who really can predict what the next form will take. Hi Matt – I’m glad that a blog post of mine actually made someone think! ;^)

You have presented some great ideas and thoughts here. I think that things will continue to evolve the daily office life, and with advances in mind/machine interfaces who really can predict what the next form will take.

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