{"id":12300,"date":"2020-03-05T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmil.wpengine.com\/?p=12300"},"modified":"2020-03-05T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:32:07","slug":"paperless-office-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makemoneyinlife.com\/paperless-office-future","title":{"rendered":"Paperless Office? It’s the Future and It’s Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am old enough to remember faxing.\u00a0 The rolls of paper, the jams, the failure to connect for no apparent reason.\u00a0 Back then it was the future or certainly seemed to be as I can also (just about) remember the post office run as well, envelopes heavy with copies of cv\u2019s that needed to be weighed before sending out to my clients.<\/p>\n

What amazes me is that so much actual paper work is still done!\u00a0 A quick look around my office and there are stacks of it floating around.\u00a0 Well, not actual stacks that would be far neater than what I can actually see before me, but nonetheless I am still on the receiving end of a lot of paper.<\/p>\n

Some of it, I confess, I print out myself.\u00a0 There is still something to be said for holding information in your hand (probably also why my shelves are still full of books that could be neatly stored away on my kindle).\u00a0 I\u2019m a big note maker and so most of it is full of little scribbles decipherable only by me.<\/p>\n

However I am conscious that I am fast becoming something of a dinosaur and really, my house can\u2019t take much more paper!\u00a0 I have folders and folders of information from various training courses that I have been on that I never read through, but can\u2019t quite bear to part with.\u00a0 Unread books on my shelves and packets of photographs (yes, I did just say packets) that really would be much better off being scanned and stored in the cloud somewhere.\u00a0 The problem is one of time.<\/p>\n

If only there was a quick and efficient way to scan all of my documents I could finally get rid of the paper that is weighing me down.<\/p>\n

Now my experience of scanners, photocopiers and the like is probably stuck in the same place as my memory of the fax machine.\u00a0 In my experience they were inefficient, unreliable and prone to jamming up their innards if pieces of paper weren\u2019t exactly aligned (and do I sound like a perfect aligner of paper \u2026 I suspect not).\u00a0 So I shudder at the prospect of making my own home office paperless.\u00a0 Surely it would take me weeks, if not months to wade through it all and what about all of my precious notes?<\/p>\n

Back in the day when as a lowly recruiter I would try to scan cv\u2019s and upload them to a word file they were riddled with errors where the text had been incorrectly read and then had to be re-written.\u00a0 Sometimes it would be easier to just type the whole thing from scratch.\u00a0 However, confident that technology had surely moved on, I set about finding out what \u2018pain free\u2019 devices might now be available.<\/p>\n

Wow, I was overwhelmed.\u00a0 It seems things have moved on a pace and the new range of scanning, intelligent data capture, on-line archiving, paperless office and (bliss) document shredding products could save me a lot of time and effort.<\/p>\n

More exciting is the prospect that there are actually companies out there that will do all of this for you!\u00a0 Companies that will take your documents, store them or shred them (if you so wish) and bulk scan them before hosting your content digitally, so that it is there just as you need it!<\/p>\n

I take a moment to survey my office and the shelves loaded with stuff.\u00a0 Imagine all of that stuff gone.\u00a0 I immediately feel lighter.<\/p>\n

Now what to do with all of that extra space?<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Nicola Wilson works for Clear Data, based in the UK.\u00a0Visit their website for more information.\u00a0Clear Data are a specialist document management company offering high quality document scanning, management and storage services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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