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The typical office of today is deluged with papers of all sorts. There are reports, memos, forms, letters, and countless other types of documents. Even the most organized individuals have certainly faced the frustration of trying to locate a particular document among the hundreds of papers which reside in their office. When asked to estimate the percentage of the typical work day which is occupied by the filing and/or retrieval of information, responses by managers and executives tend to be in the 10 to 12 percent range. The following observed trends suggest that as we progress towards the “office-of-the-future” a similar type of problem will arise.
Benjamin L. Somberg (Fri,) studied this question.