Study: Adobe's "Paper Jam"

Study:

• Adobe released "Paper Jam: Why Documents are Dragging Us Down" in March 2015. 
• The study collected data from 5,038 "Office Professionals" in February of 2015. 
• The n-counts were about 1000 from each of the USA, UK, Germany, France, and Australia.

Results:

• 83% of respondents feel their work success and productivity is hindered by outdated ways of working with documents.
• 61% of workers (69% USA) would change jobs if the benefit was a drammatic reduction in paper work.
• 28% (34% USA) feel that inefficient processes hold back career advancement
• 55% (61% USA) feel that inefficient processes distract them from more important tasks
• 43% feel that email attachments make life more complicated
• Inability to find known documents (82%) and version control (78%) are the most frustrating document problems
• 43% (49% USA) of professionals have lost important electronic information
• 52% of professoinals "admit to being emotionally attached to paper documents"
• 81% believe that information overload in a reality. Of those, 68% blame a "constant stream of new emails" as the biggest cause; 44% blame "social media newsfeed"; 36% blame "instant messaging"; 34% blame "incoming phone calls"; 26% blame "unsorted paper piles"; and 24% blame "interactions with people".