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For most companies, and the people in them who are responsible for it, document shredding is a chore. If it’s part of your job to ensure certain documents are shredded according to their destruction schedule, you might feel like it’s one of the most routine, boring tasks you have. Just how much training is needed […]

Your corporate information security policy may not be much more than a non-disclosure agreement. Or you may have separate and detailed policies for Internet Usage, IT Access Control, Social Media Use, Clean Desks, and many others. In any case, they can be ineffective if they are not common knowledge throughout your company, including every employee. […]

Every business is obligated to have some form of document storage. First, companies are required by legislation to keep corporate documents, particularly financial records, for set periods of time. Second, they are also contractually obligated to maintain records and protect the privacy of their customers, suppliers, and employees. But you probably know all that. You […]

Once you make the decision to use a document shredding company to certifiably destroy the information on your corporate documents, you’ll have a number of options for the actual shredding of the documents. One of those is on-site shredding. What is On-Site Shredding? On-site shredding means that the NAID AAA-Certified destruction of your documents happens […]

It’s just paper shredding, so why do you have to bother hiring a NAID AAA Certified shredding company? It’s a common question and there are lots of uncertified shredding companies out there hoping you don’t find the right answer. You Need NAID AAA Certified Shredding Because You’re Not Just Shredding Paper Just the existence of […]

In our last post, we were in a bit of a ‘spring cleaning’ mood and we suggested sometimes that might be better than others. For decluttering your workplace and shredding any documents you can. Of course, it’s always helpful to have a tidy, organized workplace. But after we finished the blog post, we realized there […]

Maybe you have and stick to a retention schedule for document shredding. You could also have a well-organized records management system so you can get to any document you need quickly. You might even work with a professional document shredding company who helps you keep your document shredding on schedule. Or you might have none […]

Waste-recycling programs are not usually at the top of corporate to-do lists. Even when they are, they usually revolve around reducing and recycling paper, including corporate documents. But there are a number of additional items in a business that can also be recycled in ways that helps reduce waste and also reduce some of the […]

For the same reasons that it’s popular at home, spring cleaning is a great way to keep your workplace efficient and tidy and to keep your document storage on track. Even if you have a cleaning staff or service, office workplaces can still become ‘dirty’ with clutter including extra records storage boxes, spare computer monitors, […]

Here we are, many decades after predictions of the paperless office were first made, and what do you have lying around your office, on people’s desks, in boxes stacked high in the storage closet, in recycling bins everywhere? Paper. And the fact that paper documents are still a major part of most business operations means […]