Need to create company contact list from individual contact lists

One of our owners just bestowed upon me the privilege of creating a new Company Contact List.

Here is the situation: We have about 35 employees and everyone has been maintaining their own contact lists. We would like to combine all of these into one master Company Contact List.

We are using Office 365 and all users have either an E1 or an E3 license. All desktop/laptop users are using Either Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016. I have created a Shared Folder with a Company Calendar and Company Contacts.

My next task is to combine the contact lists of 35 or so users into Company Contacts.

Right now, my options are to: 1 Ask everyone to copy their contacts into the Company Contacts. Not a good option as most of my users would give me a deer in the headlights look if I asked them to do that. Or 2 Go to each computer and copy their Contacts to the...