Australians record managers were likely under-estimating the amount of time they wasted looking for lost or misplaced documents, according to analyst firm Hydrasight.
A survey of 60 records managers commissioned by EMC Australia found they individually spent an average three hours or more per week "searching for records that were difficult to find".
The average Australian business spent more than 20 hours per week on the hunt and mid-sized firms spent twice that, the survey found,
"The same records managers who responded to the survey are likely to be underestimating the effort required in locating difficult-to-find or misplaced records inside their own organisation," Hydrasight, which analysed the results, said in a statement.
"This is because they typically have a narrower view of business records and are often more confident of their own classification and retrieval capabilities.
"Organisations may also be underestimating the potential impact that remote and mobile computing may be having on their information governance policies and practices," Hydrasight said.
EMC used the results to call for businesses to review their content, archiving and retrieval strategies.
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