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Document Cost Statistics

Written by Lewan Solutions | September 7, 2012

Organizations spend on average:

  • $20 in labor to file a document *
  • $120 in labor to find a misfiled document *
  • $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document *
  • 7.5 percent of all documents get lost; 3 percent of the remainder get misfiled *
  • Professionals spend 5 – 15 percent of their time reading information, but up to 50 percent looking for it *
  • $24 average cost to process a single invoice manually **
  • 40% of 1,200 organizations surveyed indicated disaster recovery planning not a priority +
  • 2 out of 5 companies who experience a disaster are out of business in 5 years ++

Source: * PricewaterhouseCoopers + Captaris ** IOMA ++ Gartner