Chicago businesses can benefit from transitioning to a paperless office, which involves digitizing paper documents and storing them electronically. By doing so, businesses can reduce their reliance on physical storage space, streamline their operations, and increase efficiency. With our help, you can become a Chicago paperless office quickly, easily, and securely!
In most cases, when Chicago businesses make the decision to "go digital," they hire a professional document scanning service to transfer paper records into electronic copies. The electronic copies are then available to anyone with access to the document database. Any document can be quickly found using keywords. If a hard copy is required it can be printed, used, shredded, and recycled.
We have a network of providers that can assist with any of the document management services you need to go fully digital. We can help walk you through the process of going paperless as well!
Federal Laws that Encourage Electronic Document Storage
- In 2002, the federal government introduced the introduced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which requires businesses to properly maintain financial records. That includes being able to retrieve them when required. This is significantly easier when the documents are stored electronically.
- In 2003, Congress passed the Fair and Accurate Credit Reporting Act (FACTA) which also requires business to properly safeguard and store personal information of employees and customers and properly destroy them. Obviously, if documents are systematically converted to a digital format, it is easier to store, retrieve, and ultimately destroy this sensitive information.
- The third major act which compels companies to store information electronically is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, which addresses the security and privacy of health data. The standards are meant to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the nation's health care system by encouraging the widespread use of electronic data in the US health care system.
Most offices operate under a flood of paper documents. Employees maintain a personal archive, each office maintains another archive, and then there is also an official company archive. The storage required for paper documents grows at a rate of 20-25% every year. To help meet their storage needs, many companies look to off-site storage to store their company documents. This solves the storage problem but can be very costly depending on the size of the business.
Consider just one 80 gigabyte hard drive. It can hold 2.7 million documents and costs only $120. The same storage for paper documents would be 68 four-drawer file cabinets. The cost for one cabinet alone is more than $120.
With all this to consider, it is no wonder that more and more companies are making the decision to go paperless, and we can help your business do it too!
Get Started on Your Chicago Paperless Office Today
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Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: (312) 637-9122
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