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At many larger companies, data retention policies that KEEP old data are pretty standard for platforms like this.

Record retention is a reality for many workers no matter how inconvenient reading out of context messages from 7 years ago might be.

This seems like one of the few really compelling reasons, for a particular type of person, to push return to office. Fewer paper trails to get retained, with in-person conversations…

Keep, beyond legal requirements, for something as loose as Slack seems unusual to me. Having worked for some very large companies they tend to be very worried about purging email, Slack, etc., within months, before there's a chance for a subpoena.

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