I’ve gathered a few interesting statistics below about the time required to manage paper, filing, and other office tasks. Using DocPoint and ScanPoint eliminates these time consuming document management chores to a minimum and frees you to focus on what is really important to your business.
Statistics on Paper and Filing
- The average U.S. executive wastes six weeks per year retrieving misplaced information from desks or files. At a yearly salary of $75,000, this can translate to 12.3 percent of total earnings.
- 90% of all documents handled each day are merely shuffled.
- It costs $120 in labor to track down a misplaced document or $250 to recreate it.
- Over 800 million pages are created from computer printouts per day, enough to fill a file drawer 225 miles long.
- Despite visions of a paperless office, 80-90% of all information in the average office is still maintained on paper.
- 80% of filed papers are never referenced again. 50% of all filed materials are duplicates or expired information.
- Experience continues to show that 30%-40% of all recorded information can be immediately deleted from electronic systems or paper systems.
- In every survey taken over the last 20 years, managing paperwork falls in the top ten time-wasting activities.
- Just introducing email into an office increases paper printing by 40%.
- Workgroups lose 15% of all documents they handle and spend 30% of their time trying to find lost documents. 7.5% of all documents are lost and never retrieved.
Statistics on Time Management
- During the last 25 years, our leisure time has declined by 37% while our work week has increased by a full day.
- Spending 10 to 15 minutes every morning mapping out your day can save up to 6 hours a week.
- Americans as a whole waste more than nine million hours each day looking for lost and misplaced articles, amounting to a national loss of nearly $150 million per day.
- An average interruption during the work day consumes ten to twenty minutes in getting back on track, not counting the actual time with the interrupter.
- The typical businessperson experiences 170 interactions per day and has a backlog of 200-300 hours of uncompleted work.
- 80% of our interruptions usually come from 20% of the people with whom we work.
- Americans spend 1.3 billion hours a year preparing tax information.
What can you do?
Learn more: See our video tutorials and learn how to efficiently handle emails, files, paper documents, and barcodes.
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