Small shredders are ideally made for home use or for low use at the office ideally by a single person, it can be kept beside the chair and are generally about 12 inches in height, these small shredders can take 5-7 sheets at a time and some of them come with CD destroyers also. There is no need to remove staple pins but bigger pins could damage the cutters in the long run.Now a days as there is not too much paper work, they can also be used as a common office shredder with personnel of about 5-10 people.