When you walk into a typical office building, we see staff working on computers, maybe a tablet here or there, those are to be expected. But there is something else that does surprise me. We still see lots of printers, lots of filing cabinets, and tons of paper. Why in the digital age do we still see so many physical documents? Let\u2019s look at some of the numbers.<\/p>\n
Every 60 Seconds:
\n\u2022\t48 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube
\n\u2022\t3,125 Photos are shared on Flickr
\n\u2022\t204,000,000 emails are sent out
\n\u2022\t100,000 tweets are posted online
\n\u2022\t571 new websites are created<\/p>\n
Certainly lack of technology usage isn\u2019t the reason we are dependent on physical documents. The fact that we send 204 million emails a second is astonishing. It is almost an unbelievable number. Yet I still walk into my office every morning and have paper files on my desk. So why do we keep printing? Some say it is because they don\u2019t want to lug a laptop to a meeting, so it is easier to print out a copy of a document. That may be true, but let\u2019s look at some hardware figures.<\/p>\n
2012 Sales Increases:<\/p>\n
\u2022\tTablets \u2013 82%
\n\u2022\tNotebooks \u2013 11%
\n\u2022\tDesktops \u2013 0.5%<\/p>\n
Other Figures:<\/p>\n
\u2022\t49% of IT professionals claim to use a personal device for work
\n\u2022\tBy 2015 there will be approximately 82 million tablet users in the US
\n\u2022\t54% of tablet owners are 34 years of age and older
\n\u2022\tMajority of tablets weigh under 1 \u00bd pounds
\n\u2022\t80% of tablet users say they have used their devices to improve their work\/life balance<\/p>\n
It seems tablets are becoming a preferred device, and are becoming more and more affordable. As most fall around a single pound in weight, they certainly aren\u2019t a burden to carry to a meeting or elsewhere.
\nPaper will, at some point, start to dwindle in use. I believe that in a few years, tablet use in the workplace will explode, along with BYOD acceptance and cloud services being the preferred method of organizations. For now all we can do is deal with the papers on our desks, and do our best to limit them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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