Back at work after Easter? Moaning that you don’t get enough holidays? Well, here’s something to ponder - UK industry is losing 40 days a year because of wrongly filed material on increasingly huge servers. That_s around 15% of a company’s total productivity lost. Fix that and the whole country could get an extra two months holiday without any loss to industry.

According to Tony Speakman of Filmaker, who carried out the survey (and coincidentally specialise in data management solutions): “It_s incredible to think each worker is throwing away over 40 full working days a year just looking for documents and reformatting information. What_s more amazing is that British Industry is unwittingly creating these delays through poor management of its own data and materials”.