The staffing necessary to administer a manual filing process is enormous. It includes,
In addition, low staff morale is prevalent. Opportunity for job advancement is limited and tasks like filing and copying are boring. This leads to staff turnover.
| Annual cost of document retrieval | |
| Before imaging | $57,600 |
| With Acordex | $4,300 |
Rather than the mundane job of filing and refiling paper, staff in the document management area now operate high tech equipment and provide better customer service to their co-workers. It's more fun. Morale is better, turnover is reduced and therefore productivity is higher.
But the best part is the reduction in labor. The professional staff has documents at their finger tips. Their labor spent requesting documents (item 1 listed above) was cut in half. The costs of items 2 through 4 were eliminated.
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