I have recently been asked to improve my management reporting data with respect to the filing unit I run. We are a small unit and we manage the client correspondence files on behalf of our investment teams. The question has been asked "How much filing do we do?". The short answer is, I don't know. I am aware that if we had an EDM solution in place then it would be easy to capture this data, but this is not an option for at least 6 - 9 months.

My initial thought is to go by the weight of the paper. Not very accurate in regards to workload, but certainly an indicator of the amount of paper we are dealing with. My second idea is to count the number of documents we file, but this strikes me as very time intensive and perhaps a little counter productive.

I would be very interested to hear how other people measure the volume of filing they do on a daily basis, and what their thoughts are on the subject.

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