To shred, or not to shred: that is the question.

4 Reasons why you should Outsource your Shredding Needs:

Cost Effective

Outsourcing your shredding needs is actually LESS EXPENSIVE than shredding in-house.

It only takes us 5-10 minutes to shred 150 kgs of paper.

A standard office shredder would take approx. 26 hours to shred the same amount of paper. Employee wages alone would far outweigh the cost of using GRM’s document destruction service.

That is before considering the additional expense of purchasing your own office shredder, the maintenance contracts on it, the cost of upgrades, the cost of electricity to work it, the expensive office space that it takes up, etc.

The results are undeniable, outsourcing is more cost-effective. 

Operational

Have you ever tried to use an office shredder?

When you have finally removed all the staples, paper clips and rubber bands, you must only feed a few pages at a time through the shredder. Once you finally get shredding, (frequent users will confirm this), the shredder overheats or breaks down, which causes a lot of frustration.

Time is money. Your business is at an immediate loss by allowing employees paid with high salaries to spend valuable time prepping and shredding documents.

Allow GRM to take this burden from you. We provide you with locked security containers for your employees to place their documents into until they are collected by our Garda-cleared staff.

Operationally, you become more efficient.

Security

Despite the fact that all businesses try to keep their shredding under control, it is not long before your shredding bins overflow.

Can you afford to take the risk that your employees may simply throw confidential documents into the bin?

Certain confidential information should not be handled by internal personnel, as it would be disastrous if it were to fall into the wrong hands.

You need to keep your information as safely as you would your cash, but it is difficult to do this in a large organisation.

GRM are on hand to securely dispose of your most important assets.

Experts

Through years of providing a confidential document service, we have found that it is quite common for clients to be unsure of whether they are legally allowed to destroy certain documents, or whether they must retain them permanently for legal purposes.

Under the Data Protection Acts, you are legally required to possess a Document Retention Policy. A Document Retention Policy is a control document that specifies the periods that documents must be maintained for organisational, legal, fiscal and historical purposes.

Possessing such a policy is of great importance because it will help you to ascertain which documents can be shredded, and which cannot.

If you do not have such a policy in place yet, we have Consultants on hand to assist you with its creation to ensure that you do not store records for longer than necessary and that you are compliant with law.