Office automation systems (OAS) are configurations of networked computer hardware and software. A variety of office automation systems are now applied to business and communication functions that used to be performed manually or in multiple locations...

Office types Class A office space Back office Middle office Front office Mobile office Paperless office Serviced office Small office/home office Virtual office The paperless office is now considered to be a philosophy to work with minimal paper and...

The Myth of the Paperless Office Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper The MIT Press, L16.95 Remember all the guff spouted by brighteyed techies about the Internet revolution? How the world was going to be turned upside down? Well, it hasn't and my money...

The experiences at the tax department of Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. indicate that the challenges of moving to a paperless office can pay off in improved organization and efficiency. The department established a steering committee that included representatives of each practice area and...

In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.There is no clacking of keyboards in most classrooms at the Mary Erskine and Stewart's Melville...

Patrick McMahon, a consumer-bankruptcy lawyer in San Francisco, had only a couple of days to help a client file for bankruptcy to prevent foreclosure on his home.There was just one problem: a new bankruptcy law that took effect in 2005 obligated the client to take...