Data Entry Jobs Disappear, Change Because of Document Imaging

Although it is great to see people employed, sometimes it's necessary for certain jobs to be lost, if progress is to be made. Resisting this process is counterproductive. We aren't training our sons and daughters horse and buggy drivers, now that cars are here.

Document imaging has been doing some of this pruning over the past years, and one of the main areas of streamlining has been among data entry jobs.

Here is an interesting article about how a financial need analysis organization reduced its demand for temporary data entry workers from 2,000 to 500.

FAIR, the organization described, had been employing data entry workers to manually copy numbers from one form to another. When FAIR implemented a document imaging solution, however, the data entry need was greatly reduced.

This is one area where document imaging and scanning services can produce tangible and immediate return on investment.

Interestingly, some companies have cleverly transitioned data entry from being a relatively no-brainer activity into more of an information and document management service.

Horse and buggy drivers learned cars, too. And so it goes...