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on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:25PM
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
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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Daimler's Solution for Annoying Out-of-Office Email: Delete it
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @12:27AM
> 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
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]