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Once You Have A Retention Policy, Enforce It!
Posted by Gregg Mayer on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Beyond just having a document retention policy, CIOs must ensure that it is also enforced. As one article explains:
Be aware that enforcement can be a ticklish business. Studies have shown 10 percent of employees given an order to destroy documents in accordance with a DRP simply will not do so. Sometimes, they believe they will some day need the document for some reason or another. Some are just lazy. Others are naturally disinclined to obey orders. Whatever the reason, it will create headaches, so anticipate the problem as best you can. Periodically, you might wish to conduct audits to make sure the company’s deletion edicts have been followed.
With so much electronically stored information in the business world, CIOs must ensure employees are actually deleting files in line with the retention policy; this may prove a critical fact in future litigation.
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