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5 REASON Your Business Needs IDM Shredding Services No business today can afford to be careless about handling information. From financial statements to customer credit card data to sensitive medical information, confidential information lives in every drawer and file cabinet and deserves to be handled, stored, and eventually destroyed with planning and thoughtfulness. Information hygiene is not just in your best interests, in many cases it is a legal requirement. It will also make your business more efficient, since the information you do need will be much easier to organize and find when it is not lost among the outdated information that tends to accumulate. If you have any doubt about the advantages of adopting a serious information evaluation and elimination program for your business or home, here are five reasons you should consider. 01. Protect Your Reputation Everyone has read news reports and heard sad stories about instances where careless employees, unscrupulous snoops, or unfortunate trash collection accidents have led to the exposure of someone’s private and confidential information. Mishaps like these can lead to embarrassment, financial loss, and even legal jeopardy. Whether it’s your fault or not, if that information was in your safekeeping, it’s your reputation that will suffer. 02. Protect Your Customers If you have a business that collects the kind of information your clients or customers would not want made publicly available or left vulnerable to abuse, you owe it to them as well as to yourself to put together some policies and procedures to keep that information secure and to dispose of it securely as soon as it’s no longer needed. 03. Protect Your Identity Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes worldwide, and the information that thieves gain from insecure documents is the number one cause. Most people think of identity theft as a computer crime, but paper records — often carelessly disposed of — are in fact the primary source of information used by these criminals. 04. Protect Your Time & Money Have you ever tried shredding your own documents with one of those modest little home or office shredders? Fine for a day’s mail perhaps, but for destroying large amounts of documents, it takes hours — if the machine is even up to the task. Our industrial shredders can save you the expense of buying your own equipment, but more importantly our services will save you and your staff valuable time and provide you with a far superior shredding job. In most offices, too, space is almost as valuable as time, so monitoring and reducing the amount of information you keep in storage will free up that space for the documents you need or other office activities. Fewer filing cabinets can mean more desk space for staff. 05. Protect Our Environment Most offices are not ready to adopt the environmental goal of going paperless, but by relying on IDM’s document shredding services, at least you will be contributing to the Green cause by joining the recycling movement. We recycle all possible materials from our shredding and disposal processes. In a business or office environment, “too much information” can be a liability in many ways—leaving you open to accidents or malicious intrusions that could expose sensitive data, but also making it difficult to keep your information organized so that you can find and use the right information when you need it. IDM’s goal is to help you keep your information under control for maximum efficiency and security. We want to help you think strategically about what information you need not and should not be keeping, and offer you the most reliable and convenient means to securely destroy the data you want to dispose of. |
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