Making paper(less)

Back in the 70s, innovative thinkers imagined a future where paper was pretty much eliminated in the office because of advancements in technology. This was a time when personal computers were making headlines, and a future where record-keeping, archiving and bookkeeping would ultimately become automated was a revolutionary concept. 

Now it’s hard to think of a world before Google, let alone a laptop. 

And while this prediction was made over 40 years ago, we’re still not paperless, even if the benefits are clearer now than ever before. 

The virtuous reasons such as saving trees and sending less waste to landfills are integral, but perhaps one of the biggest factors businesses need to consider for going paperless is the pursuit of efficiency. 

After all, striving for efficiency and effectiveness is at the heart of every small business.

In the age of connectedness, the opportunity to go paperless has never been so easy, and the benefits been so significant – as businesses today don’t just go online for work, they’re online permanently for work.  

We are connected to one another through apps that allow us to share and work together. We use the cloud to foster collaboration and give us access to files wherever we go. Our smartphones have more processing power than computers that existed 10 years ago. 

There’ll always be people who want to use paper, but considering the upcoming generation of workers are digital natives, you’d expect that number to drop.

The path to going paperless is already paved, but here’s a few ways to get there.