Don't you have better things to do with your time

than hunt for lost information?

The benefits of an organized office:

Statistics: How much does being unorganized cost your company?

From Datapro/Gartner Group: 25% of paper documents that are misplaced will never be located.

From Essential Client/Server Survival Guide:

• It costs $25,000 per year to fill a four-drawer cabinet, and $2,160 per year to maintain.
  

• US businesses spend $350 billion on computer printouts annually.  Paper copies cost between 6 and 12 cents per page (though 130 billion of the 350 billion copies per year are not needed).

From PricewaterhouseCoopers:

• Professionals spend 5-15% of their time reading information, but up to 50% of their time locating pertinent information. 
  
• Of a total 8 hours wasted per week in paper management, finding documents wastes 1 hour, difficulty sharing documents wastes 1 hour, distribution & storage wastes 1 hour, and archiving and retrieval wastes half an hour. The average employee spends 400 hours per year searching for paper documents.