•  Companies spend about 10% of their revenue handling paper documents.

    Robert Orfal, Don Harkey, and Jeri Edwards. The EssentialClient/Server Survival Guide

•  According to studies by the Gartner Group, office workers spend up to

    60 % of their time preparing, filing, copying, and faxing documents.   

    Geoffrey Rowan, "Documents Drain Corporate Resources", The Globe and Mail, November 13, 1996.

•  Middle and Senior Managers spend as much as 45 percent of their time

    dealing with paperwork.    

     American Paper Institute.

• A typical office worker can waste up to two hours a day looking for

    misplaced paperwork.  

     Nevada State Library and Archives, "Points to Ponder.”

•  The average executive spends 150 to 250 hours a year looking for

    misplaced, misfiled, or lost documents.    Carlos A. Cuadra, "The Corporate Memory

       and the Bottom Line.”

•  Professionals spend over 500 hours reviewing and routing files  

    1995 International Records Management Council Study