You don’t have to have decades of experience in the paper shredding industry to understand the core differences among cross-cut, strip-cut and pierce and tear commercial paper shredders. One cuts paper both vertically and horizontally to create confetti-like shreds, another pokes holes and rips up the material, while the other only cuts paper into vertical...Continue Reading

Did you know that Elon Musk has such a sensitive sense of smell that Tesla job candidates are allegedly told not to wear fragrances to their interviews? Presumably, if you do get the gig and are going to be working in Elon’s proximity, you put your favorite cologne or perfume away for good. Hey—his business,...Continue Reading

Running a successful business is all about maximizing your resources. Every dollar you spend on one service is a dollar that you can’t spend somewhere else, so it’s essential that you wring every bit of value out of every service you pay for. Your shredding service contract is no exception. If you’re using your shredding...Continue Reading

You’re keeping a lot of plates spinning as a business owner or busy professional. There’s never enough time to get everything done. So wouldn’t it make your life just a little bit easier if you could skip using a document shredding service, and just recycle or even throw away all your documents instead? Hackers aren’t...Continue Reading

An expired credit card isn’t just a useless piece of plastic. It might be rejected when you try to pay for lunch, but it still contains sensitive data—which means that your business’s expired card could have value for data thieves. Card destruction is a necessary security measure to prevent a devastating case of credit card...Continue Reading

You probably have sick day policies and vacation policies. Work-from-home policies. Policies that address poor performance, social media use and harassment in the workplace. They’re hardly glamorous, but each of these policies is essential because each one serves a unique purpose in protecting your business. A company that doesn’t have a data destruction policy has...Continue Reading

It’s a sad reality that some businesses will not survive the COVID-19 crisis. Others will have to reinvent themselves to stay afloat, moving to less expensive facilities to cut costs. Some businesses, having let their employees work from home during the shutdown, may find that setup sustainable and need to downsize their physical offices in...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 landscaping, snow removal and office...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 your year was busy, there’s...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 each day. It’s understandable that...Continue Reading