I am going to open up some of my lines of thinking which is all to do with regulatory compliance – specifically around the area of information technology – email archiving. I won’t even go into the “actually” we use many forms of electronic tools to communicate – email is just one of them.
Think about all the different ways you communicate across an increasingly connected world?
Back to my point- These statements astound me.
1. We delete all our emails after 30 days, period
2. We don’t really need to archive, that’s what Outlook is for? I store everything in my personal folder
I am going to respond to the second one first – you clearly have never lost your laptop, had a hard disk crash or had a server failure. It’s when this happens that you wish you had ‘backed it up’ or if you are the IT guy and it’s your bosses 5 years worth of email that is lost, it’s time to say get your resume up to scratch.
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