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The Path to Paperless

Although tech advances have rendered the old insurance obsolete, how many agencies can actually claim to be "paperless"?

By Laura Mazzuca Toops | Updated on June 04, 2014

Maybe you don’t think too much about your workplace; it’s just where you go every day, filled with phones and files and people who process the information to keep your business running. Still, it’s interesting to look at how the workplace has changed over the years—from the era of typewriters and carbon copies to the “word processors” of the ‘80s to the fully interconnected, mobile world we work in today.

In the book “Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace,” author Nikil Saval documents the changes in the American workspace – from the “countinghouses” of the 1850s to today’s “collaborative workspaces” and co-working arrangements.

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