Specialized organizations have conducted advanced research on the use of documents and arrived at these conclusions:
80% of employees spend 30 minute per day seeking further information, while 60% spend one hour or more recreating documents that already exist
Every year 7.5% of all documents is lost (or no longer found)
A document is reused, on average, 19 times
The consumption of paper documents increases by more than 22% every year
Average consumption of an employee's time is distributed as follows: - 30% of the time reading and answering e-mails - 28% of the time creating documents - 20% of the time looking for information - 20% of time analyzing the information
• The improvement of activity through electronic handling of documents and through standardized solutions for communication and document management is at least 50%.