PHOTO: StockSnap It's 2021. At this point, using paper, much less requiring paper for any process borders on the ridiculous. Digital and electronic signature solutions have been widely available and accepted for decades. Yet I still come across organizations, public and private, that require paper submissions. This is even more baffling when the process doesn't require a signature. Those paper requirements were paused in most cases a year ago, as COVID-19 locked people away at home. With our year-long remote work experiment now coming to an end, it is time to take stock. The temporary processes that removed the requirement for paper need to become permanent.