Businesses urged to end ëstare and compareí frustrations with first ever ëRed Pení amnesty

Workshare , the leading provider of content change applications for professionals, today announced the launch of the first-ever nationwide ëred pení amnesty, urging UK businesses to lay-down their trusted red biros that for too long have been used to laboriously amend and correct documents.

UK businesses are being asked to throw away their red pens and banish the lengthy and frustrating process of deciphering scribbled comments and manually proofing documents, by downloading a free trial of Workshare 3 from http://www.workshare.com/noredpen.

Recent research from Gartner states that organisations spend at least half a day of company resources per week proofing and amending documents. Workshareís commissioned Vanson Bourne ëCost of Sharing Reportí (Oct 2003), found that even in todayís techno-savvy society up to 70% of people still proof and amend documents by printing them off and submitting changes via sticky post-it notes, representing a massive, and unnecessary, cost to business.

Additionally, a massive 86% of companies targeted in the Cost of Sharing Report felt out of control when getting contributions and feedback on critical documents back in on time, in the correct format, believing this to be one of the major causes of workplace stress.

Workshare 3 alleviates these problems allowing document workers to interactively view and incorporate changes from many people, audit those changes and reliably prevent document corruption all without requiring others to have Workshare 3.

ìWe decided to hold the first ever national ëred pení amnesty in a bid to highlight the huge frustration felt by todayís document workers,î says Andrew Pearson, vice president, Workshare EMEA. ìDocuments are the main output of todayís businesses, and almost all require some kind of input from others. For too long people have had to put up with the ëstare and compareí proofing process that is not only inefficient, but also a major cause of stress as people struggle to hit ever-shortening deadlines, with less and less resource. î