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The average U.S. executive wastes six weeks per year searching for missing information in messy desks and files. (That translates into one hour per day.)
- The Wall Street Journal |
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The typical knowledge worker spends about 2.5 hours per day or roughly 30% of the workday searching for information
- IDC White Paper
"The High Cost of Not Finding Information" 8/2001 |
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The average desk worker has 36 hours of work on his or her desk and spends 3 hours per week sorting piles trying to find the project to work on next.
-Richard Swenson's book,
"The Overload Syndrome" |
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White collar workers waste an average of 40% of their workday. Not because they aren't smart, but because they were never taught organizing skills to cope with the increasing workloads and demands.
- The Wall Street Journal |
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Of the total 8 hours wasted per week in paper document management, we spend 1 hour finding documents, 1 hour with difficulty in sharing documents, 1 hour in distribution/storage and .5 hours in archiving and retrieval.
- Imagetag's website, 2003 |
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Logear’s study of 138 business people - 73% said their impressions of colleagues were influenced by the way their desks are organized. Nearly 70% believed that workers with messy desks were perceived as less career-driven than their fastidious counterparts.
- Arizona Republic, 6/31/2001 |
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Are 18,000 sheets enough? Your four-drawer file cabinet, when full, holds 18,000 pages
- Office Systems magazine, March 1995, Jay Davidson |
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48% of American executives admit to having a messy desk but claim to know where everything is. In contrast, 12% say that although their desk appears organized, they have no idea where to find anything.
- FastCompany Magazine, 8/2004 |
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80% of papers that are filed are never referenced again. Rent of the space the file cabinets occupy, the filed cabinets themselves, and filing supplies all cost money
- Small Business Administration |
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An 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. Loses one out of every 20 documents. Spends 25 hours recreating each lost document.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers |
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It costs about $25,000 to fill a four drawer filing cabinet and over $2,100 a year to maintain it.
- Gartner Group, Coopers & Lybrand, Ernst & Young |
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