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The
average office spends $28 in labor filing or retrieving a document.
$150 in labor is spent finding a misfiled document.
$350 in labor is
spent recreating a lost document!
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The
average Fortune 500 company sends 150 million paper documents and
receives 150 million paper documents annually.
In addition, over $17
million is spent by each company just on faxing!
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Professionals
spend 5 to 15% of their time reading information, but up to 50%
looking for it.
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7.5%
of all documents get lost, 3% of the remainder get misfiled.
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The
average business document is copied 19 times
- Over 81 billion sheets
of paper are copied each month!
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There
are over 4 trillion paper documents in the U.S. alone
- growing at a
rate of 22% per year!
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Over
$5 billion each year is wasted on printed materials that become
obsolete before they are ever used!
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For
every 10 printed pages, only 1 is ever consulted.
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Employee
theft costs employers over $1 billion a week
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The
number of Internet users is currently assessed at 259M, worldwide.
By
2002 it is expected to reach 490M and will reach 735M in 2005.
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U.S.
web advertising spending will grow from $3.1 billion this year to
$4.82 billion in 2000 and $13.3 billion by 2003.
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Current
estimates are that the worldwide Internet economy will grow past $1
trillion in 2001 and increase to $3 trillion in 2003.