Records Management Statistics

Studies have shown that workers waste 20% to 40% of their time searching for documents manually. Lost or misplaced paper files are a common problem with potentially disastrous results.

The following statistics on document management are alarming:

• 90% of corporate memory exists on paper
• Of all the documents that get handled each day in the average office, 90% are merely shuffled
• The average document gets copied 19 times
• Companies spend €14.75 in labour to file a document
• It costs €88.51 to find a misfiled document
• It costs €162.28 to reproduce a lost document
• 7.5% of all documents get lost, 3% of the remainder get misfiled
• Professionals spend 5-15% of their time reading information, but up to 50% looking for it.

Source: Coopers & Lybrand

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