Nolene asked "I'm curious to know how other companies have scheduled retirement-related records and what the thinking is behind their choice."

I couldn't resist jumping in on one of my favorite topics.  We have a contract DOE site with employee traffic between our main facility and the DOE lab. The retention for contractor personnel files is 75 years after termination. We have that for everyone instead of trying to figure who has and has not worked/visited the site over the years.

Yes, it's expensive to maintain records for a long time. You do what you can within your resources. You index, identify, migrate, backup, duplicate, and so forth. You make a good faith effort to maintain the records and information for as long as you can as well as you can. If some misfortune occurs as it will eventually, you document what happened and move on.

Rob Seibolt, CRM
Supervisor-Records Management
816-360-5480

http://www.mriglobal.org

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