I haven't read all the replies however will add my 2 cents worth. We are an electrical utility of 2600 employees and the Records dept consists of myself as supervisor, plus 13 employees. We do both scanning and microfilming for the entire organization. We all operate our central records (active) plus 2 working (departmental) areas. We manage approximately 1 million paper based records, approx. 18 million microfilm and about 500,00 images (just started imaging 2 years ago and only do 2 applications to date). We are not considering outsourcing however it would be a big help to have a couple of extra bodies just to do filming. Sandra Allen Records Management Supervisor NB Power Fredericton NB Canada -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Calvert [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: February 02, 2005 12:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Staff Size & Outsourcing of Imaging or Microfilming I am looking for information on the average size of a Records Management Department compared to total number of employees within a company. For example, how many supervisory and how many hourly employees do most companies have in their RM Department and do those employees do imaging and/or microfilming or is that type of work outsourced. For example, we are a consumer owned electric utility with a total of approximately 450 employees. We have one supervisory employee, one hourly Group Leader, and three hourly Records Management Assistants, plus we use occasional temporary employees. These people do everything that has to do with records management including mail handling. With the exception of myself as the supervisor, everyone does a certain amount of scanning documents into the imaging system. We are also considering outsourcing a backlog of records that need to be imaged because it is not possible for our staff to keep up with current imaging and do the backlog too. I could not find anything similar to this in the Archives or on the ARMA site. If anyone knows of such a list that is available that would give me company size and size of records management department, I would appreciate it. If not, I would appreciate that information from some people on the list. Thanks for your help. Shirley H. Calvert Administrative Services Manager Hoosier Energy REC, Inc. P.O. Box 908 Bloomington, IN 47402-0908 812-876-0306 812-876-3476 (Fax) [log in to unmask] List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance ------------------------- This e-mail communication (including any or all attachments) is intended only for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any use, review, retransmission, distribution, dissemination, copying, printing, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this e-mail, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof, immediately. Your co-operation is appreciated. Le present courriel (y compris toute piece jointe) s'adresse uniquement a son destinataire, qu'il soit une personne ou un organisme, et pourrait comporter des renseignements privilegies ou confidentiels. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire du courriel, il est interdit d'utiliser, de revoir, de retransmettre, de distribuer, de disseminer, de copier ou d'imprimer ce courriel, d'agir en vous y fiant ou de vous en servir de toute autre facon. Si vous avez recu le present courriel par erreur, priere de communiquer avec l'expediteur et d'eliminer l'original du courriel, ainsi que toute copie electronique ou imprimee de celui-ci, immediatement. Nous sommes reconnaissants de votre collaboration. List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance