Questionnaires from 121 social workers in Taiwan revealed 88%were stressed by their job's record-keeping requirements and 61% spent more time keeping records of the services they delivered than actually delivering those services. They spent an average of 46% of total hours worked keeping records. Though social workers are not paid by those they serve and instead need to account for themselves to those who do fund their work and evaluate their performance-still, the exaggerated recordkeeping requirements most social workers are saddled with today cannot help but contribute to burn-out and the shortage of human resources in the profession. As necessary a part of their job as it is, record-keeping should not be allowed to become an obstacle to the effective performance of the social workers' main duties. The author suggests that simplifying recordkeeping requirements in the profession would equally well serve risk management and accountability needs.