Why is professional document shredding a must for any business?

It doesn’t matter what profession you’re in, what field of expertise, whether you handle state secrets or secret recipes, the threat of your valuable or personal information getting out and into the hands of your rivals and competition is a serious threat.

This blog post will outline the ways in which a professional document shredding organisation can help you, and what you should look for and keep in mind when hiring your professional document shredder.

Five ways a professional document shredder can save your company money

Here are five reasons why hiring professional document shredders is a great idea for your company and will save you money to boot!

1. Ensure Document Destruction- By hiring professionals you are ensuring that they are doing professional work. Professional document destroyers pride themselves on their discretion and ability to reduce your secrets to ash.

2. Save money and space on storage- Rather than costing you money, document shredding will actually save you money by reducing your need for space in storage areas and, of course, by keeping your valuable intellectual properties out of other people’s hands.

3. Minimise chance of ‘espionage’- Depending what line of business you’re in there is a good chance that someone, somewhere would like to get a look at your secret documents to get an advantage over you. Ensure that your business is espionage proof with professional document shredding services.

4. Clear out your records- Another great thing about hiring professional document destroyers is that you can clear out all the old documents that you don’t need that you are unsure about. They may or may not hold valuable information to your company that you no longer require but your competitors would love to get a look at. Clear out your records and keep secrets safe with professional document destruction.

5. Streamline your business- It’s a simple fact that by clearing out your old records, ensuring that any sensitive data is destroyed, and reducing clutter in your physical work spaces you are going to streamline the efficacy of your business so you can focus on the more important day to day activities of earning money and building your business.

Three things to look for in your professional document shredder

Here are some things to keep in mind and ask your potential document shredding organisation about before hiring them to complete your document shredding tasks.

1. Discretion- Make sure your document destroyer understands the need for discretion; being discreet is a huge part of why you would want to hire their services in the first place.

2. Expertise- Make sure your hire of choice has the right equipment and facilities to get the job done right and in a discreet fashion.

3. Experience- Go with a company that has a proven track record for secure document destruction and ask for referrals and testimonials.

Hoxton Industries supplies its customers with the latest in document shredding techniques combined with the very best and most discreet service in the industry. If you have sensitive documents that you can’t afford to see the light of day, then get in touch with the team of document shredding experts at Hoxton Industries today. Hoxton Industries is an Australian Disability Enterprise, which has been operating since 1969 and currently offers employment to over 100 people with disabilities.