White collar workers waste and average of 40% of their workday. Not because they aren't smart, but because they were never taught organizing skills to cope with the increasing workloads and demands.
Wall Street Journal

US businesses spend $360 billion annually turning the information on the documents they receive every day into something that they can use to run their business.
Gartner Group

The average executive spends two hours/day trying to reach people on the telephone.
Canadian Statistics, Ian Brown, Vista

Knowledge workers spend 50% of their time searching for information, leaving only the remaining 50% to actually use what they have found.
Reuters Study

US employees waste more than two hours a week finding, sharing and storing documents.
Smart Business Magazine 7/2001

85% of the information that businesses need to operate does not fall into structured formats of automated spreadsheets or databases. Instead, it exists in a wide range of unstructured content such as email, graphics or video. With so much diverse information, employees spend roughly 25% to 35% of their time looking for the information they need to do their jobs.
Document Magazine October 2003

Executives waste six weeks per year searching for lost documents.
Fast Company Magazine 8/2004

The average office has 19 copies of each documents.
USA Today