We were asked this question by a Fortune 500 company a couple of months ago. We said you didnt have to, but they werent convinced, so we ran the data for the F500.
Compiling this with previous data of ours we see that today, 77% of F500 only accept online applications when you are at their website.
Look for yourself and you will see many notes like this one from Merck:
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