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)
PLUS add the cost of the environment changes caused by paper recycling, tree cutting etc. The digital age has came, and I hope more and more people that there’s no sense in throwing money and wasting time.
19 coppies of every document - really!! That’s a lot of paper. People say computers waste energy put it may turn out they save it. The problem is we print way more than we need to.