15% of all paper handled in businesses is lost, according the Delphi Group, a Boston consultancy, and 30 percent of all
employees' time is spent trying to find lost documents.
Jane M. Von Bergen (Knight Ridder Newspapers), The Boston Globe, 3/21/2006

Executives waste six weeks per year searching for lost documents.
From a survey of 2,600 executives by Esselte, maker of Pendaflex and Dymo, FastCompany Magazine, 8/2004

95% of all information is on paper.
International Data Corporation, Document Magazine, 2/2004

A paper by Berkeley scientists estimated that information created on print, film, tape and disk in 2002 was roughly
equivalent to all the text in the Library of Congress- multiplied by 500,000. The amount has doubled in the past three years
and will grow even faster as people begin to take advantage of low-cost storage technology.  Steven Levy, Newsweek,
11/10/2003

A study by Basex, a New York research firm, found that office distractions ate up 2.1 hours a day for the average worker.
That adds up to $28 billion a year in the United States alone.

Another study found that employees devoted an average of 11 minutes to a project before being distracted. Researchers
Gloria Mark and Victor Gonsalez of the University of California, Irvine, found that once interrupted, it takes workers 25 minutes
to return to the original task, if they return at all.

People switch activities, such as making a call, speaking with someone in their cubicle or working on a document, every
three minutes on average, Mark said.  Betty Lin-Fisher (for Knight Ridder Newspapers), Houston Chronicle, 2/27/2006)

A recent study from the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London suggests that your IQ falls 10 points when you're
fielding constant email's, text messages, and calls, the same loss you'd experience if you missed an entire night's sleep
and more than double the 4-point loss you'd have after smoking marijuana. On average men fared worse than women
because, researchers say, men have more difficulty multitasking.  YogaJournal, p. 22, 12/2005

On a typical day, office workers are interrupted about seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80%
of which are considered trivial, according to time-management experts. Wendy Cole, TIME Magazine, 10/11/2004

People who multi task are less efficient than those who focus on one project at a time, says a study published in the Journal of
Experimental Psychology....Managing two mental tasks at once reduces the brainpower available for either task, according
to a study published in the journal NeuroImage. Sue Shellenberger (from the Wall Street Journal), Star Telegram: "Multitasking
Makes You Stupid, Studies Say," 12/2/2003

For the past 10 years we have studied the behavior of busy managers in nearly a dozen large companies. Our finding on
managerial behavior should frighten you. Fully 90% of managers squander their time in all sorts of ineffective activities. In
other words, a mere 10% of managers spend their time in a committed, purposeful, and reflective manner. Dr. Helke Bruch
and Dr. Sumantra Ghoshal, Harvard Business Review, 2/2002

The average business person sends and receives about 90 messages a day.  Therefore, under ideal conditions, people
are spending at least 28 to 94 minutes a day handling e-mails.
Harris Interactive Survey http://www.harrisinteractive.com/ — survey of 23,000 people

If a company has 500 employees and each employee receives five junk mails a day and spends about ten
seconds deleting each one, they can expect to lose close to $40,000 per year in wasted salaries and 105 days in lost
productivity:
500 x 5 x 10 = 25,000 seconds
25,000/60/60 = 6.94 hours 6.94 x 260 x $22 = $39,696
We get 225 "man-days" lost!!