The Future of Documents

An interesting IDC report on How Generation Y works with paper and Electronic Documents in the Office.

Among the key conclusions: this workforce under 30 years old still see paper continue to play a critical role in many everyday business processes. Although they do not see paper disappearing overnight, they are moving fast towards the Less Paper office - although this is driven more by their “green” and environmental consciousness than technology savviness.

Other interesting insights include how document length or formats impact the preferred document form, how Gen Y perceives faxing and scanning, and where electronic and paper have the respondents’ preference.

Although quite focused on hardcopy vendors, this report is the first one of a very promising IDC series on “The Future of Print”, and can be ordered here.