Did you know...There are over 4 trillion documents in the U.S. alone growing at a rate of 22% per year.
The average document gets copied 19 times.
Of all documents that get handled every day in the average office, 90% are merely shuffled.
7.5% of all documents get lost, 3% get misfiled.
Professionals spend 5- 15% of their time reading information, but up to 50% looking for it.
90% of all corporate memory exists on paper.
Companies spend $20 in labor to file a document. $120 in labor to find a misfiled document and $220 to reproduce a lost document.
Source Coopers & Lybrand