Cost Effectiveness

Out-sourced shredding is more cost effective than in-house shredding.

It is very expensive to have your own employees shred paper with portable office shredders. Office shredders often shred between 6 and 15 pages per minute and suggest for each three to five minutes of operation, you let it cool off for a couple minutes. If you should be shredding over 2,000 sheets per month, you could be saving money by having an outside service shred your material. (see calculations below). If you shred less than 2,000 sheets per month, you should consider a purge service.

You save money by using an outside document shredding company because:

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 paperclips and staples
You don't have to clean up the dust from shredding
You don't have to pay for the cost of disposal of the paper

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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