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blacksheeplogic:

--- Quote from: Brutte on September 19, 2019, 07:20:05 pm ---One of my former corporations had an official regulation that we were not allowed to archive any emails that "could be of any value to government authorities" in case of a potential investigation and litigation. The limit was set to 3 months, older emails were wiped out.

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Yes, I also worked for a company that had a similar rule and forced deletion of all emails unless there was an approved exception. This came into place after a length and costly law suite. It's interesting to look at the tactics employed by companies large enough to have legal divisions who need to justify their daily keep.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Brutte on September 19, 2019, 07:20:05 pm ---One of my former corporations had an official regulation that we were not allowed to archive any emails that "could be of any value to government authorities" in case of a potential investigation and litigation. The limit was set to 3 months, older emails were wiped out.
I suppose all corporations have these rules.

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I've never heard of such a rule, and never worked at company that had that.

blacksheeplogic:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on September 20, 2019, 11:57:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Brutte on September 19, 2019, 07:20:05 pm ---One of my former corporations had an official regulation that we were not allowed to archive any emails that "could be of any value to government authorities" in case of a potential investigation and litigation. The limit was set to 3 months, older emails were wiped out.
I suppose all corporations have these rules.

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I've never heard of such a rule, and never worked at company that had that.

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I've only come across this when working in the US. But, I suspect the company I worked for adopted the practice across their global entities.

windsmurf:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on September 20, 2019, 11:57:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Brutte on September 19, 2019, 07:20:05 pm ---One of my former corporations had an official regulation that we were not allowed to archive any emails that "could be of any value to government authorities" in case of a potential investigation and litigation. The limit was set to 3 months, older emails were wiped out.
I suppose all corporations have these rules.

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I've never heard of such a rule, and never worked at company that had that.

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Its becoming more common in the U.S. ... email records tend to hurt companies in court more than help them. 

DTJ:

--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on September 19, 2019, 12:44:28 pm ---Just opening a new thread to discuss strange company rules and various techniques used by companies to manipulate employees (engineers who are actually working).

Strange rule on sexual harassment

Have you come across any such rules or any other manipulation methods?

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At a company I worked at in the late 90's an employee was reported to management for sexual harassment. A receptionist had reported him to management for persistently looking down her top when talking with her.

He agreed that he did look and told HR that if she was going to wear low cut tops and then he may continue to look. HR had no response and the world kept turning.

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