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Facts on Records Management

The following statistics are generally accepted and have remained true throughout the history of records management.

- 1/3 of all records are useless. - 1/3 are inactive: archival value or retained until the destruction date be it for legal or company courtesy policies. - that leaves 1/3 records being actually active.

The following are conservative figures.

- Seventy percent (70%) of businesses which suffer a disaster to their information do not survive. - Office costs are increasing 7% - 10% per year. - 90% of general administrative costs are personnel costs. - The average company has more forms than personnel. - Each time 11 new forms are created there is a requirement to hire one new person. - 90% of all new forms are designed by rookies. - The majority of all forms are designed on what is called flat forms, or if designed on a computer usually forms are then printed and filed as paper. - In the creation of documents, the majority of documents are created or originated by a method which is considerably slower than speaking and using voice recognition software. (i.e. Writing: avg. 15wpm, Typing: Avg. 30-60wpm, Speaking: Avg. 100-150 wpm.)

Converting from cabinets to Spacesaver shelving can save you approximately 50% of your office space, or allows you to double capacity. Taking that new Spacesaver shelving and converting to Spacesaver mobile storage doubles capacity again, or decreases filing space by an additional 50% on average.

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