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Statistics provided by the National
Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
In 2008 NAPO Survey of 400 consumers nationwide, 27 percent said
they feel disorganized at work, and of those, 91 percent said they
would be more effective and efficient if their workspace was better
organized. 28 percent said they would save over an hour per day and 27
percent said they would save 31 to 60 minutes each day.
NAPO, 2009 Get Organized
Month Survey (of 400 Consumers Nationwide). unknown 06/30/2009
Statistic by/from NAPO www.napo.net
"Attention deficit disorder,
depression, chronic pain and grief can prevent people from getting
organized or lead to a buildup of clutter."
Parker-Pope, Tara. A Clutter
Too Deep for Mere Bins and Shelves. The New York Times 01/01/2008
Fact by/from David F. Tolin, Director, Anxiety Disorders Center,
Institute of Living, Hartford CT
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/health/01well.html
The average American receives
49,060 pieces of mail in their lifetime, 1/3 of it is
junk mail.
A 12-ft wall could be built from LA to NYC with paper
thrown away annually.
One family can save approximately 3 trees per year by
recycling newspapers. Four feet of a paper stack is equal
to one tree.
Each year, an average 100 lbs. of waste is generated by
an individual office worker.
The average employee at a desk uses between 150-250 lbs.
of paper every year.
Paperwork has been voted the biggest burden for small
businesses. 80% of papers that are filed are never
referenced again.
An average 4583 lbs. of books and magazines are discarded
annually by the average American.
Chronically disorganized people keep all books and
magazines purchased. The average American buys 668 books
and 9,000 magazines annually. That is equivalent to a
small town library in the U.S. in one person's lifetime.
The Quill Filing Products Catalog
contains these statistics:
- Record-keeping constitutes over 90% of the activity
within offices.
- 45 new sheets of paper are generated each day by every
U.S. office worker.
- More than 80% of the cost to maintain paper records is
in the personnel-time required to retrieve and replace
documents in the filing system.
- The personnel cost to handle records averages over 20
times the cost of the records themselves.
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The Wall Street Journal
(March, 1997) reports the average U.S. executive wastes 6
weeks per year searching for misplaced information from
messy desks and files. This equals 5 hours per week or
one hour per day. At $60,000/year in salaries, that is
nearly $8,000/year in wasted time on the job.
Stephanie Winston, author of The
Organized Executive, estimates a manager loses 1 hour/day
to disorder, costing the business up to $4,000/yr if
earning $35,000/yr - or $8,125/yr at $65,000).
Another theory is that 10% of a manager's salary is lost
to disorder in the office.
280 hours (7 weeks) per year are lost by workers seeking
clarification due to poor communication.
Per management engineers, misfiled documents cost between
$61-122 to be retrieved. The cost is calculated by the
value of the person looking for the file, the person
interrupted to find the
file, the space the file occupies, and the cost to
recreate the file if it cannot be retrieved.
In the top 10 list of management wasters for the past 20
years is managing paper. Locating misfiled electronic
data on the computer will soon join this list.
Office workers spend an average of 50% of their time
working with hardcopy documents.
Daniel Stamp of Priority Management Systems
of Bellevue, WA, states that the average office worker
spends 36 minutes/day looking for misplaced papers.
The average American spends one year of their life
looking for lost or misplaced items at home and in the
office. US News and World Report
According to the American Demographic Society,
Americans waste more than 9 million hours each day
looking for lost and misplaced articles.
For every hour of planning, 3-4 hours are saved from
redundancy, waiting for information, not being prepared
and poorly managed tasks..
About 80% of the clutter in your
home or office is a result of disorganization, not lack
of space.
It costs an average of $10/square foot to store items in
your home.
Cleaning professionals say that getting rid of excess
clutter would eliminate 40% of the housework in an
average home..
Using the correct organizational
tools can improve time
management by 38%, according to Mobile Technology
Products.
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