There is one organizing process that I hear over and over again that people just despise – and that’s filing papers. It’s just not fun and if not set up properly, it can become intimidating, time consuming and down right difficult.
In 2005, a company called Outsell, Inc., which is a research and advisory firm for the information industry, said that 5.4 billion hours are spent each year searching for information. They also found that in 2005 the average employee spent 11 hours per week searching for information, versus 8 hours in 2001. That’s a lot of wasted time!
Having a filing system …read more