Do Small Businesses Need Professional Shredding?
When people think about professional document shredding, they may picture large corporations, hospitals, banks, or law firms with thousands of confidential records. But protecting sensitive information is just as important for a small business.
In fact, small businesses routinely handle documents containing information that should not simply be placed in the trash or recycling bin. Customer records, employee information, financial documents, invoices, contracts, and other confidential paperwork all need to be disposed of securely.
So, do small businesses need professional shredding?
For many businesses, the answer is yes.
Small Businesses Handle Confidential Information Too
You don’t have to be a large corporation to have confidential documents.
A small business may have paperwork containing:
- Customer names, addresses, and contact information
- Employee applications and personnel records
- Payroll information
- Social Security numbers
- Bank and credit card information
- Tax documents
- Contracts and agreements
- Medical or insurance information
- Vendor records
- Proprietary business information
Once these documents are no longer needed, they should be destroyed securely.
Simply throwing confidential paperwork into a garbage can—or even a recycling bin—can create an unnecessary risk. Professional shredding provides a secure way to make sensitive documents unreadable before the shredded paper is recycled.
You Don’t Need a Lot of Paper to Use a Shredding Service
One common misconception is that professional shredding is only practical for businesses with large quantities of documents.
That’s not the case.
Time Shred Services works with businesses of all sizes. Whether you have a few boxes of old files, several filing cabinets that need to be cleaned out, or an ongoing need to securely destroy documents, we can provide a shredding option that fits your needs.
You don’t have to wait until your office is overflowing with paper.
One-Time Shredding Is Ideal for Many Small Businesses
Some small businesses don’t generate enough confidential paper to need regularly scheduled shredding. That’s where one-time shredding can be a great option.
You simply contact Time Shred Services when you have documents ready to be destroyed.
One-time shredding is especially useful when you are:
- Cleaning out old files
- Moving to a new office
- Closing a business location
- Going through a records retention program
- Clearing out filing cabinets or storage rooms
- Switching from paper records to electronic files
Our staff can come directly to your location and securely shred your documents on-site.
Scheduled Shredding Makes Document Disposal Easier
Businesses that regularly generate confidential paperwork may benefit from an ongoing shredding program.
Time Shred Services can provide secure locked containers that remain at your location. Instead of employees deciding what should go into the garbage, confidential documents can be placed directly into the secure container.
We then come to your business on an agreed schedule and shred the documents.
This makes secure document disposal part of your normal office routine instead of something you have to think about every time paperwork accumulates.
Your Employees Don’t Have to Spend Time Shredding
Using a small office shredder may
Watch Your Documents Being Shredded
seem like an inexpensive solution, but someone still has to stand there feeding documents through it.
That takes employees away from the work you hired them to do.
Office shredders can also jam, overheat, require maintenance, and handle only a limited number of sheets at a time. A pile of records that could take employees hours to shred can be handled much more efficiently with professional shredding equipment.
With Time Shred Services, you leave the shredding to us.
Time Shred Services provides on-site mobile document shredding.
Your documents are placed into a secure shredding bin, wheeled to our mobile shredding truck, and mechanically lifted into the shredder. The documents are destroyed right at your location, and you can watch the shredding process on the truck’s monitor.
Once the shredding is complete, the shredded paper is recycled.
Professional Shredding Can Be Simple
Small business owners already have enough responsibilities. Secure document destruction shouldn’t have to become another complicated project.
Time Shred Services makes professional shredding easy.
We offer both one-time and scheduled shredding services, so you can choose the option that makes the most sense for your business. We provide on-site shredding, and there are no fuel surcharges or hidden extra fees.
We can also help with hard drive destruction, electronic media destruction, computer recycling, and product destruction.
Call Time Shred Services
Your business may be small, but the information you are responsible for protecting can still be important.
Don’t take chances with confidential documents once you no longer need them. Let Time Shred Services securely destroy them at your location.
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