A
4 drawer file cabinet holds 15-20K pages, costs $25,000 to fill, costs
$2,000 per year to maintain. These
pages can be stored on 1 CD-ROM.
10
File cabinets can fit on 1 DVD.
With
corporate paper-based documents growing at a rate of 22% per year, 7.5% of
paper documents are lost completely.
The
average office spends $28 in labor filing or retrieving a document.
$150 in labor is spent finding a misfiled document.
$350 in labor is spent recreating a lost document.
Professional
spend up to 15% of their time reading information, but up to 50% looking
for it.
The
average Fortune 500 company sends and receives 150 million paper documents
annually. In addition, over
$17 million is spent by each company just on faxing.
The
average business document is copied 19 times.
Over 81 billion sheets of paper are copied each month!
