- Electronic office
The electronic office, or e-office, was a term coined to cover the increasing use of
computer -basedinformation technology foroffice work, especially in the 1980s. It was amarketing buzzword at the time, but now is not so widely used since all modern offices are electronic offices.The term appeared much earlier in the name of the
LEO computer (Lyons Electronic Office), that first ran a business application in1951 inEngland .The ongoing process that led to e-office adoption was elimination of
paper and making most of the office communications electronic.The definition of electronic office is not precise, and it might be either:* the introduction of individual computers running office
software application s, such asword processor s,
* or to the interconnection of office computers using alocal area network (LAN),
* or to the centralization of office functions viaweb application s.The introduction of e-office improved accuracy and efficiency of organizations and thereby improved their level of service, while theoretically lowering costs and drastically reducing the consumption of paper. Many documents are still being printed out and circulated on paper, however, especially the ones that require
signature .References
* Susan Fenner (ed.), "Complete Office Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Today's Electronic Office", 2nd edition.
Random House , 1996. ISBN 0679770380.External links
* [http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1043085.html Electronic office etiquette]
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