Google, HelloFax, Expensify and others want you to abandon paper in 2013

“Paperless office” has been a dream of office managers since the advent of personal computers. Although today you probably print less than a decade ago, the average US office worker still uses about 10,000 sheets of paper per year. According to TechCrunch, to promote the idea of ​​a really paperless office, the Paperless Coalition , which includes Google Drive , HelloFax , Manilla , HelloSign , Expensify , Xero and Fujitsu ScanSnap , today announced the launch of a new campaign to encourage businesses to abandon paper and keep "Time, money and trees."

“The digital tools that are available today are completely different from what we had five years ago,” says Joseph Walla, founder and CEO of HelloFax. “For the first time it is so easy to sign, fax and store documents without printing a sheet of paper. Finally, you can quickly and easily work with documents and reports, manage accounting, pay bills and send invoices. The paperless office is here - we just have to use it. ”

According to the coalition, Paperless 2013 is a “campaign to eliminate the need for paper for“ paperwork ”.” In addition to saving time, money and trees, all these companies, of course, are interested in obtaining new users, notes TechCrunch. In its current incarnation, this group has no obvious competitors. For example, although Google Drive is not a bad choice for storing data on the Internet, many of its competitors, such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box or SugarSync, offer the same features.