Business organizations have often adopted document "retention" policies to provide a uniform means for destroying their business records. The commonly offered justification for such policies is the need to control the cost and burden of archiving and storing the enormous universe of records and documents that businesses generate.  Quite often, however, the tangible concern has not been implementing good corporate housekeeping practices, but, rather, that potentially damaging business records be destroyed at the earliest possible date. The premise is that the corporation will usually be far better off having fewer, rather than more, business records in its […]