Space Maker
FREEING
UP SPACE
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