Has anyone ever had a paper free office?

no! simply no!

When I was working, we got pretty close. No more mail services, as all info was shared via email and webinars. I used to make thousands of overhead transparencies, and halftones for meetings and such. That all went away with Powerpoint. All the photos that I used to print were emailed to the requestors. About the only thing I did still print were posters. Yea, still had a few sticky notes.

I'm not completely paper free, but I've started using a small dry erase board instead of sticky notes.  I just snap a pic and email it to myself then I add to my project  doc folder. 

I didn't know that we thought age was important, but so far i can call all of you children, (relatively speeking).

Hi,

I know the idea of a paperless office since I've started to works as a system administrator in a engineering office. I think that is a dream that can't be realized soon or even never. Quite the opposite I feel that more and more paper is produced in our office.

For myself I can say that I prefer to read a documentation on paper and not on a screen. Because on a paper I can noticed my thoughts and can marked something.

old people like paper... if you hire | work for or have to deal with them then you also need to use paper but if you stay under 20 years (sometimes under 30) then you can have a paper free work flow and it is a joy to behold but isn't any faster because the time | effort saved is placed into making backups or looking for that invoice from 2012?

Myself, I think and plan best on paper; I sketch everything out. Laying out, rearranging, and shuffling sketches around and together; that's just how my brain works best.

The closest we ever came to a paperless office was about six years ago. But it wasn't intentional; there was a fire at the plant. Now all paperwork is produced in quadruplicate so that two sets can be stored off-site... just in case.

Oh well; so much for the paperless office.

--OB

Well I'm glad to know that it is not just me that continues to use paper. I think the 'paper free office' must be just another one of those sayings that someone came up with, in order to promote all those time saving must have programs we all use .

It probably falls into the same catagory as the, 'automation will give us more free time' saying that industry leaders and politicians use.

I still use paper notebooks and love those Post-It Notes.

I have a Wacom tablet -- on my bookshelf.

In my business (video is just a hobby), we try to send customer statements via email or fax, but some customers still only do snail mail.

I read your post - looked across my desk and burst out laughing. I'm not even close .

Like you - I make notes in note books, always have paper around for sketching and I like to print images. For text books I do prefer to thumb through a paper book.

I did however, give up paper appointment diaries a few years ago and have not borrowed a paper library fiction book for a couple of years (preferring e-reader downloads).

Dave