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Facts
Esselte annually sells enough suspension files to store 200 billion pages of information.
Pendaflex has an online “I Hate Filing Club”, which provides tips and tools for making filing easier.
Copiers, fax machines and printers generate between 860 billion and 1 trillion pages annually.
Most people derive an extraordinary amount of satisfaction when given the time to organise their papers, their lives, etc.
Paper demand increases by 40% in companies that introduce email systems, because employees tend to print emails before reading them.
According to a survey from the University of California at Berkeley, in 2002 the world’s offices used 43% more paper than they did in 1999. Also in 1999 0.03% of the world’s information was stored on paper, this dropped to 0.01% in 2002. However, in the same period, the total amount of information grew so fast that the absolute quantity of information stored on paper still rose by more than 30%.
Document growth at most organisations is exceeding 200% a year.
Paper usage has actually increased by 14% in the last few years.
The average organization:
- makes 19 copies of each document
- spends $25 in labor to file each document
- spends $150 in labor searching for each misfiled document
- loses one out of every 20 documents
- spends 400 hours per year searching for lost files.
Paper consumption will grow by 20% each year.
Disorganisation costs time and money. Some experts estimate that the average person spends 150 hours a year looking for misplaced information.
According to the Wall Street Journal the average executive loses an average of six weeks per year retrieving misplaced information from cluttered desks and files.
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