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Personnel Files - where do you keep yours?

The issue

Centralised or de-centralised? On-site or off-site? What do HR departments in organisations with several thousand employees do?

The responses

One contributor describes a system of centralised storage of main HR files with a degree of duplication at local office/line manager level allowing for the keeping of ‘active files’ locally, but questions how beneficial such a system actually is.

Contributors discuss the length of time for which certain records must be kept and the possibility of storing archived records by outsourcing this service.

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