Did You Know?  

 

It costs $120 in labor to track down a misplaced document or $250 in labor to recreate it.

- North Carolina's Brunswick Beacon

 

An average organization: Makes 19 copies of each document. Spends $20 in labor to file each document. Spends $120 in labor searching for each misfiled document. Loses one out of every 20 documents. Spends 25 hours recreating each lost document.

- PricewaterhouseCoopers

 

It costs about $25,000 to fill a four drawer filing cabinet and over $2,100 a year to maintain it.

- Gartner Group Coopers & Lybrand Ernst & Young

 

80% of papers that are filed are never referenced again. Rent of the space the file cabinets occupy, the filing cabinets themselves, and filing supplies all cost money

- SBA

 

25% of enterprise paper documents that are misplaced will never be located.

- Datapro/Gartner Group

 

85% of all company's knowledge assts aren't in the relational database that runs major enterprise applications.

- Forrester Research, IBM & Merrill Lynch

 

The average office workers make about 61 trips per week to the fax machine, copier and printer.

- Gartner Group