Efficiencies of Electronic Storage over Paper Files
On paper files when a customer request requires a document, you must pull the file and call him/her back. This results in phone tag and wastes both time and phone charges. Electronically the files can be retrieved and viewed instantly on your PC. This allows you to handle the problem immediately, eliminating phone tag and improving your organization's image. This improvement in client satisfaction has been rated at an increase of 30%-50%.
- Savings on time to create and modify documents 50%-90%
- Increase in productivity 20%-30%
- Savings on document handling 20%-40%
- Improvements in cycle time 20%-40%
- Savings on desk space 30%-50%
- 75% of printing and copying is for internal use
- Of all the documents that are handled each day in the average office, 90% are merely shuffled
- 85% of all archived documents never leave the filing cabinet
So, no matter how you say it, you are simply throwing money away and being grossly inefficient, storing information on paper the way they did 100 years ago