Message #67793

[gee4]

This is simply a matter for each individual company.  I think we have discussed this somewhere before under crisis management.

I have worked in companies where the filing of paper copies was a must and in other companies where electronic storage was the way to go.

As long as your company has a back-up proof way of storing data it won't matter if your building burns down.  Fire-proof storage units installed in a comms room usually provide adequate back-up for any electronic documents.

Even signed documents are scanned and converted to pdf format for storage and use.

I worked for a global IT company a couple of years ago and almost everything we did was stored and backed up electronically.