Office Space Conservation Favors Vertical Storage

========================retrieving and storing drawings, since it typically takes
As the cost of office space continues to skyrocket,less than 10 seconds to find and remove a document
office managers everywhere are looking for betterwhen using vertical storage systems. Users of flat file
ways to conserve floor space. This trend has causedstorage systems waste time sifting through files to find
an extraordinary increase in use of vertical documentand remove documents.
storage systems in offices worldwide.For example, Armando Cruz with the San Diego
Most filing and storage systems found in office supplyWater Department says, Prior to using vertical storage
stores are designed for letter or legal-size documents.we used a crate system. We converted to a vertical
The large drawings, maps, and charts required bystorage system because it saved so much room and
engineering and architectural firms have been storedit was convenient for organizing our work. We have
mainly in flat files or pigeonholes in the past. By storingeach drawing stored in numerical order, and can easily
the documents in a flat position, the footprint of the oldseparate between each project. Vertical storage gives
fashioned storage systems naturally take up a lot ofus the freedom to set up our own organization
expensive floor space.system. The primary reason we continue to use
Vertical storage filing systems store the same numbervertical storage is because of space savings.
of documents as the older three and five drawer flatWith savings in floor space and filing time, vertical
files, but require 75 percent less space. Officestorage makes good business sense. The reduced
administrators and project managers havefoot print yields significant cost savings by redeploying
experienced a 68 percent saving in time spentvaluable floor space to revenue producing activities.