Why Businesses in New Jersey Should Use A Shredding Service?

New Jersey is America’s 8th largest economy. Every year it contributes around $624.9 billion to the USA’s economy. Currently, there are more than 861,373 small businesses in New Jersey and almost 1.8 million workers offer their services to these small and medium enterprises.

Other than that, New Jersey is home to some of the world’s most renowned multinational corporations (MNCs) and Fortune 500 companies like Johnson and Johnson, Prudential Financial, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Merck & Co. Together, these large-scale conglomerates and small businesses provide employment to 4,573,600 people.

With such a large staff and a high volume of documents and files being exchanges, updated and stored, these companies could use a reliable paper shredding service to manage and organize their workspaces.

Shredding Services Can Declutter Office Spaces

Offices that are cluttered with piles of paperwork and old files make workspaces look messy, unorganized and cramped. It can be very confusing and time-consuming for employees to find the right file or document from amongst the hundred others. Cluttered office spaces can demotivate employees and have a direct impact on their performance and productivity.

According to a study done by Staples Corporation, 94% of the employees stated that they feel more productive when their workspace is clean and organized, and 77% mentioned that when they sit on a clean and organized workbench, they produce and deliver work that is of high-quality.

Shredding Services Can Minimize the Need for Large Storage Rooms

Even in the age of technology, many companies around New Jersey have large storage rooms to archive their old documents and records. Even though the record has been updated and is available on the company’s online archives, they continue to manage and maintain these storage rooms for the safekeeping of old records.

The problem with storage rooms or file rooms is that it occupies a lot of space, needs extra staff to handle and organize the records and can be very dangerous for the company because years of classified and confidential data is stored in these large file rooms. Unauthorized personnel can easily break into these file rooms, steal the records and use sensitive information to cause harm to the company.

Instead, the companies should create, update and secure their online archives and use a reliable shredding service to destroy the old documents and records.

In-Office Shredding is Neither Secure nor Environmentally-Friendly

Businesses and organizations may be using their office shredding machines to destroy sensitive documents such as financial information, off-the-record business deals and tax returns, etc., but the problem with in-office paper shredding is that it’s neither secure nor environmentally-friendly.

After shredding the important documents, most often, employees discard the shredded paper waste in trash cans. Other employees or visitors with malicious intentions can scoop up this shredded paper waste, sort it and paste the strips together to decipher the text on it. Moreover, this way, the shredded paper waste is not sent for recycling and instead ends up in the landfills.

According to the World Atlas, 24 trees are cut down to make 1 ton of standard office paper. But when we recycle that same 1 ton of paper, we can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 4000 Kilowatts of energy, 7000 gallons of water and 3 cubic yards of space at the landfills, which means that by recycling the shredded paper waste, you will end up saving 64% energy, 58% water and reduce air pollution by 60 pounds.

Unlike in-office paper shredding, professional document shredding services send the shredded paper waste for recycling.

New Jersey Shredding

Here, at New Jersey Shredding, we offer safe, fast and environmentally-friendly paper shredding services to our valued customers. We are a HIPPA compliant shredding service and offer you the options of on-site document shredding as well as off-site document shredding.

If you would like to get rid of your old office documents in a safe and reliable manner, then call us at (201) 371-5900 or email us at Sales@NewJerseyShredding.com

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