It’s so if we’re ever sued over anything then we’ve only got 6 months of history that we’re liable for during discovery.
Lawyers figured out it was a nightmare going through 20+ years of emails, so the ‘solution’ was simply to just not keep records for very long.
Technically you can archive important emails, but they’ve made that harder and harder to do and it’s not always like you know what’s going to be important later, so it’s really easy to not save something you should have.
It’s so if we’re ever sued over anything then we’ve only got 6 months of history that we’re liable for during discovery.
Lawyers figured out it was a nightmare going through 20+ years of emails, so the ‘solution’ was simply to just not keep records for very long.
Technically you can archive important emails, but they’ve made that harder and harder to do and it’s not always like you know what’s going to be important later, so it’s really easy to not save something you should have.