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Daimler's Solution for Annoying Out-of-Office Email: Delete it

posted by azrael on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Sure, you can set an out-of-office auto-reply to let others know they shouldn't email you, but that doesn't usually stop the messages; you may still have to handle those urgent-but-not-really requests while you're on vacation. That's not a problem if you work at Daimler, though. The German automaker recently installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it outright. If there's a meltdown at the workplace, you may not have to deal with it at all. The move affects about 100,000 employees, so it's clearly going to make an impact.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:34PM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:34PM (#82415) Journal

    Why keep an email that can't be replied to in a timely fashion?
    Its just setting the company or the division up for trouble from lawsuits and "discovery" (or what ever the German legal system calls that) to archive this stuff.

    If it was important the sender will email back, and or contact someone else. Why leave it laying around for a month or two, opening the company up for lawsuits because they failed to act when warned of a significant safety issue or something.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @12:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @12:27AM (#82431)

    > Its just setting the company or the division up for trouble from lawsuits and "discovery" to archive this stuff.

    You can be sure that they already have an email (non)retention policy just for that purpose, unofficially of course because if it were official that would be destruction of evidence. Binning email while you are on vacation isn't going to be much of an improvement over that.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Leebert on Monday August 18 2014, @06:20AM

      by Leebert (3511) on Monday August 18 2014, @06:20AM (#82494)

      unofficially of course because if it were official that would be destruction of evidence.

      Actually, you have that backwards. If you have a retention policy and are deleting based on that retention policy, you're (generally) cool. If you're deleting OUTSIDE of that retention policy, there might be issues.

      See: https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/protect/retention [eff.org]