Some facts:

• Paper usage continues to grow at 6 – 7 % per year
• Email increases paper consumption by 40%
• The consumption of paper in the U.S. has grown 43% since 1980
• Unstructured content is growing at 92%
• Typical office workers spends 40% of their time looking for information
• Professionals spend over 500 hrs annually reviewing and routing files
• 150 hrs are spent looking for incorrectly filed documents
• Today organizations maintain 30 times more data than in 1999
• Revenue for document-capture software and services is expected to increase at a 17 percent compound annual growth rate, according to a new report from market-research firm IDC.

The Average Organization
• Makes 19 copies of each document
• Spends $20 in labor to file each document
• Spends $120 in labor searching for each misfiled document
• Spends $250 to reproduce a document.
• Loses 1 out of every 20 documents
• Spends 25 hours recreating each lost document
• Spends 400 hours per year searching for lost files
(PricewaterhouseCoopers Study)
• The average worker prints 45 pages a day
• Spends $150 to process a paper form

Non private organizations related with Record Management and Storage:

AIIM – The Enterprise Content Management Association (http://www.aiim.org/index.asp)

PRISM International – Professional Records & Information Services Management (https://prismintl.org/index.php)

ARMA International – a not-for-profit professional association and the authority on managing records and information – paper and electronic (http://www.arma.org/).