Space Maker

FREEING
UP SPACE

What if you could free up valuable and expensive office space currently used by your paper records ?

 

CHALLENGES AND STEPS TO TAKE

  • Carry out an audit of the type, number and location of records in your organization
  • Create a document retention policy with a built-in review process to make sure you only keep what you need to. This should be based on legal advice that considers the rules for your geography and industry
  • Arrange secure destruction of any records you no longer need
  • Index, label and store records
  • Determine who needs access to what, where they will be and how often they’ll need it
  • Develop an offsite storage solution allowing for different levels of access

 

IRON MOUNTAIN ADVANTAGES

  • Free up valuable office space and capital by sending records off-site in purpose-built secure facilities
  • Full confidence in the security and compliance of your records and chain of custody
  • Increase control over who accesses your information
  • Certified secure destruction of unneeded records
  • Overall lower operating costs

 

CUSTOMER STORY – Croydon Council, UK

  • Reduced single box storage cost by almost 35% Croydon – an estimated saving of £2 million a year
  • Streamlined and standardized information management processes, improved security and reduced cost
  • Records are now better organized and securely stored yet easily accessible, allowing them to comply with freedom of information requests within prescribed timescales

 

INDUSTRY FACTS

  • 42%. The number of organisations stating that their volume of paper is increasing, consuming up to 35% of office space.
    Source: Information Governance – records risk and retention in the information age. AIIM, March 2013
  • £890. Every filing cabinet you can dispense with could save you this much a year in real estate costs.
    Source: ‘What are the facts about paper’. www.thepaperlessproject.com
  • 35%. Research indicates that employees waste over a third of their working week filing, copying, indexing or retrieving documents.
    Source: IDC