Who Knew Paper Could Be So Expensive?
Ever thought of moving towards a paperless office? One look at the following statistics and you may be one-step closer to hopping on the “paperless office train”.
- An average organization makes 19 copies of every document and it costs them $20 in labor to file each of those documents.
- An average organization spends $20 in labor to file each document
- An average organization spends $120 in labor searching for each misfiled document
- The average employee spends 400 hours per year searching for paper documents. Say you pay each employee $10/hour, that’s $4,000 every year - wasted
- The average employee spends 15-30 percent of their work time looking for information
- It costs about $25,000 to fill a four drawer filing cabinet and over $2,100/year to maintain it
- The average organization spends $2,524 on paper supplies every year (paper, ink cartridge, filing cabinets, cost of occupied space, off-site storage, etc.)
- The average organization spends $13,300 every year in time associated with lost paper documents (search, retrieval, recreating lost or misplaced documents)
March 4th, 2009 in
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