If you are shredding less than two hours per month, you may want to consider storing the paper and having the paper shredded once per year by a professional document destruction company.

You save money by using an professional document shredding company because:

You don't have to pay your employees to shred the paper

You don't have to purchase and maintain your own shredding equipment

You don't have to remove paper clips and staples

You don't have to clean up the dust from shredding

You don't have to pay for the cost of disposal of the paper

 

Direct Cost of Shredding Internally

2,000 sheets divided by 15 sheets per minute is 2 hours 15 minutes. If the person doing the shredding makes as little as $8 per hour plus 25% for taxes and benefits, that means the direct cost of internally shredding 2,000 pages is $22.22 per month. Next you add in the cost of the in-house shredder, disposal of bags of paper, dust clean up and disruptions from noise. If your volume is this amount or more, then you are better off using a professional, bonded document destruction company.