I am a list lurker. dont tend to respond all that often.
With only 15 years experince in the RM field, I am such a new comer. However I couldn't let Larry's SWAG for friday go unchallenged. IMHO90% retained to meet cited legal or statutory requirement, would be high by an order of magnitute. I doubt that even 30% of business records retention is founded on legal or statutory requirement. Many more retention schedules are based on business rationale -- and sometimes that rationale is pretty weak. but I would be interested to here from the real experts.
Tom Owens
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