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Guide to Hosting an Office Shredding Day

How to securly clean out all the old documents accumulating in your office.

By Steven Hastert, General Manager, Shred Nations

Most offices have a retention policy for official company records, i.e. tax returns, employee files and bank statements. These documents are carefully filed and stored neatly in boxes in a storage area or at an offsite storage facility. Each box is labeled with the owner and the year of the document. Every year a shredding service comes in and shreds the outdated records. This is a great system for the official company documents but what about the secondary records in the office? Secondary records are everything that employees keep stashed away in their desks and in filling cabinets around the office. They can be customer lists, memos, printouts or even copies of official company records. It is these records that make up the bulk of the documents an office produces. Don't think you need to worry about these old meeting minutes and customer lists? Don't forget that if you allow your employees to treat this information as trash you have no legal recourse under Corporate Espionage Act if it is given or sold to your competitors. It is also these documents that show up at the most inopportune times. Disgruntled employees often times save these records only to produce them for the plaintiff in a lawsuit. A good records retention policy should cover secondary records and provide for reasonable life spans. Employees should be encouraged to regularly shred documents past their usefulness. You might also consider allowing each employee to bring in a box of shredding from his or her home. Let everyone know you would like them to bring in any paperwork they have taken home but they are welcome to fill up the box with any other shredding they need done. This not only helps protect your employees from identity theft but also helps you to better control your company's information.

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Schedule a shredding service.

The first step is to set up the day you are going to be doing the shredding.
I recommend: Shred Nations will give you competive quotes for paper shredding.

Get some boxes for your employees.

Give a box to every employee to take home and return with any shredding that needs to be done.
I recommend: Amazon is a good place to find cheap file boxes.
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