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Re:The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains by sneak on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:26PM (#27476867)
Yet another good reason why corporate chat message TTLs should be no more than 7-14 days.

(Another is that the default of "forever" in things like Slack and Mattermost means that a compromise of a single user account gets to see every DM (including sensitive stuff DMed like passwords or PII) ever sent or received by that user. It's insane. It's also able to be subpoenaed. Expire your messages!)

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Re:The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains by novok on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:14AM (#27482331)
People get really annoyed that they cannot find answers to previous questions, and if you have q&a website to get around that, your just moving the chat goalposts around. Not to mention its a higher friction process, so people go ask questions anyway on the company slack.

Also screenshots are a thing and easy to do in secret impulsively, recording stuff when your talking in person has a much higher threshold, and far less people are typically listening.

Also once you get to a certain size, there are legislative retention requirements and legal holds.

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