How long will your company keep a former employee’s W2? What about 1099s? Do bank deposit slips get saved for a few years, or saved forever? How should old receipts and expense reports be handled? These are just some of the questions that can be answered by a company’s record...Continue Reading

If you need to install new lights in your workplace, do you call on a local electrician for expert help? When you need office supplies, do you have a vendor you can call? Does an accounting firm help you file your taxes? Do you trust other companies to handle your...Continue Reading

Another year is nearly over. No matter what victories and challenges the year held for your business, one thing is certain: You accumulated a ton of stuff. How many sheets of paper were added to your files this year? How many devices broke down and had to be replaced? If...Continue Reading

Issuing ID cards and access badges can be a bit of a pain. New employees need them created, forgetful employees need them replaced, and departing employees need to be made to give theirs back. There’s a lot of administrative work around creating and maintaining these cards. But it’s all worthwhile,...Continue Reading

So you’ve got old data-storage devices gathering dust in corners of the office that everyone avoids. Sooner or later, you’re going to have to deal with them. But the process of figuring out how to dispose of them properly, and actually making that happen, seems like a big hassle. We...Continue Reading

Running a successful business is a little like being a circus performer at times. Specifically, a plate spinner: someone who balances and spins a dozen plates, then rushes across the stage making sure that each one stays in motion. You have so many critical and time-sensitive matters to attend to...Continue Reading

It’s not a distinction worthy of celebration, but this year is on track to be the worst on record for data breaches. There were 54% more data breaches reported by midyear 2019 than were reported by midyear 2018, according to research done by Risk Based Security. Thousands of breaches have...Continue Reading

If it can be shredded, we can shred it. That’s the philosophy that drives our approach to all client requests for a shredding service. Paper? Of course. Hard drives? No problem. Body armor? Actually, that is a problem – one that Northeast Data Destruction encountered not too long ago. Let’s...Continue Reading

Like getting your teeth cleaned and changing the smoke alarm batteries, scheduling document shredding is one of those essential tasks that’s nevertheless easy to forget. You know the security risks of trashing sensitive documents, and you know that it’s a bad use of company resources to have an employee shred...Continue Reading

Has anyone ever told you that you have your mother’s or father’s eyes? Mom’s or Dad’s could be the same shape, size and color as yours, but ultimately your eyes have a totally unique structure. That’s why, sometime in the near future, a store clerk might ask you to complete...Continue Reading