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The paperless office: how to work when you can’t push paper

15 July: With coronavirus accelerating the closure of physical offices, what is happening to the paperwork? Author and practice owner Della Hudson explores the practicalities, positives and pitfalls of the paperless office.

For a paperless office, my practice has a surprising amount of paperwork around! For many businesses, the paper habit is a very hard one to break, so let’s start with the paper which comes in through the door.

We can encourage clients or customers to email or use cloud-based apps but HMRC is one source of paper that we are unable to remove at the moment, despite the lingering threat of coronavirus. So how can you deal with incoming post while avoiding potential infection?


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