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How Do You Destroy a Large Amount of Paper?

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Businesses and households amass vast amounts of documents, which must be kept for a certain amount of time. But when retention periods expire and it’s time to destroy unwanted files, it’s not as simple as throwing file boxes in the …

How to Save Money, Maximize Space and Stay Compliant

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Your organization’s documents and files are essential to your business, but they can also be difficult to manage, track and store. Filing cabinets, bankers’ boxes and piles of papers are taking up valuable space within your office – and for …

How to Protect Your Confidential Information from Unauthorized Access

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Organizations around the world continue to face new challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic and secure access to information remains top-of-mind for many workplaces. As more employees continue to work remotely for the unforeseeable future, companies are having to weigh …

How to Spend Less Time Looking for Information

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What’s the biggest time and money waster in your company? Here’s a hint: it’s not your employees socializing around the water cooler. The real issue is the time employees spend searching for documents. According to PRISM International, a professional records …

The Cost of Document Scanning

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With the rise in remote work, climbing office rents in cities, like Toronto, and stringent records management requirements, organizations are seeking ways to digitally transform their businesses to save time and money while improving access to information. One effective solution …

Comparison of Shred-it vs Blue-Pencil vs Iron Mountain Shredding

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If you’re in the process of finding a paper shredding service for your organization’s confidential information, you may wonder how different providers stack up. With many factors to consider, it’s important to do your research when hiring a company for secure document …

Ready to Impress Your Boss?

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Everyday employees throughout your company create hundreds of confidential documents that require disposal at some point in time – and how these documents are destroyed is crucial. Simply throwing customer or patient information into the recycling bin can lead to …

Can You Afford a Privacy Breach?

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Privacy breaches are a reality that all organizations need to protect themselves against regardless of industry or size – and it’s an area of business that must not fall into complacency. As the ways in which we work continue to …

Are Remote Employees Careless with Company Information?

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In recent years, remote work has gained in popularity as a way for workplaces to reduce overhead costs and increase productivity while offering employees a better work/life balance. But the spread of COVID-19 has accelerated this transition, causing many organizations …

Your Office Shredder is Costing You Valuable Productivity

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Using an in-house office shredder may seem like an economical solution, but it’s costing your business more than just dollars and cents. Using skilled employees for document destruction is a time-consuming process that contributes to lost productivity and expensive labour …

Blue-Pencil Survey Shows How COVID-19 is Changing Work

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More than eight months have passed since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and life as we know it has changed immeasurably. Across the country, Canadians have experienced lockdowns, unemployment, remote work and virtual learning, as well as new realities, such …

3 Reasons Your Current Shredding Process is Failing

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Every day organizations across Canada create millions of documents, which require disposal at the end of their lifecycle. How these documents are disposed of can put businesses at risk. Even with office paper shredders or third-party shredding services, employees regularly …

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