You know paperwork is one of the least favourite parts of everyone’s job. But, why does it have such a notorious reputation? The major reasons include:
- Lost forms
- Damaged paper
- Inefficiencies in printing, signing, scanning, and sending
- Missing entries
- Incorrectly completed paperwork
- Chasing up paperwork
- Illegible handwriting
- Transcribing into digital systems
- Cost of postage when original signatures are required
- Storage costs
- Papercuts
I know paper cuts may be painful (we’ve all been there). But, the real disaster is how much time you spend managing your paperwork. That’s because when you’re chasing paperwork issues, you’re not fully focused on running your business. And that means you are losing time and money.
So imagine you have three field workers. Each one on $45 an hour, and one admin staff, earning $30 an hour. Now, assuming they each spend 4.5 hours a day filling out, delivering, chasing or clarifying and transcribing paper forms into electronic data. With $100 worth of monthly printing costs, that amounts to a yearly cost of $77,250.
What could that sum go towards? It’s more than your admin person’s salary, and could even provide a significant investment opportunity for your business.
What if we told you there was a service which enabled you to have a Return on Investment (ROI) of $76,146 and reduced the amount of time spent on paperwork by 243 working days?
There’s a light at the end of this dark (and expensive) tunnel. It’s called Tiikr.
