Only 17pc of firms have ‘paper-free’ office
DUBAI, October 30, 2016
Only 17 per cent of organisations say they work in a “paper-free” environment, according to research from Kodak Alaris, a leading provider of IT solutions.
Though more and more “paper-free” projects are put in place, 56 per cent say the volume of paper in their business is increasing, the study said.
The annual maintenance cost of one filing cabinet is about $2,604, which means $521 is the average annual cost of maintaining just one drawer in a five-drawer cabinet.
Among all documents, 7.5 per cent get lost and 3 per cent get misfiled, the study found. While $120 is the average cost of finding a misfiled document, $220 is the average cost of reproducing a lost document.
The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper each year… and wastes 1,410 of them. With 6 cents/a page, a business with 500 employees could be losing $42,000 each year to wasted paper.
Kodak Alaris helps organizations achieve digital transformation and reduce the bottlenecks created by paper so they can be more efficient and productive, a statement said. - TradeArabia News Service
