Cost Effectiveness

Out-sourced shredding is more cost effective than in-house shredding. If your people are shredding for as little as a combined two hours per month, it is likely that hiring a professional document destruction company will be a less expensive alternative. If you are shredding less than two hours per month, you may want to consider storing the paper and having the paper shredded once per year by a professional document destruction company.

Why You Save Money with Professional Shredding

• You don't have to pay your employees to shred the paper

• You don't have to purchase and maintain your own shredding equipment

• You don't have to remove paper clips and staples

• You don't have to pay for the cost of disposal of the paper

• You have no cleanup

Direct Cost of Shredding Internally

2,000 sheets divided by 15 sheets per minute is 2 hours 15 minutes. If the shredding person makes as little as $8 per hour plus 25% for taxes and benefits, that means the direct cost of internally shredding 2,000 pages is $22.22 per month. When you add in the cost of the in-house shredder, disposal of bags of paper, dust clean up and disruptions from noise, you are better off using a professional, bonded document destruction company.

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