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By Nina Kaufman

To Purge or Not to Purge . . . and When Can You?

Between paper and pixels, the amount of information that one company has to retain can become staggering. Plus, like Arthur Anderson, if you shred (or delete) information that you should have retained (or you’re destroying because you were just named in a lawsuit), that fact can be held against you in court.

There’s a way around that. You can implement a routine document retention (and destruction policy) that governs how and when you can destroy documents. If you set the policy and implement it routinely before there’s litigation on the horizon, you can protect your company.

For a free white paper that looks at what to retain and for how long, go to theHRSpecialist.com/

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