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If payslips are paper, people at least have a fighting chance of retaining them. I have payslips from when I was a teenager. Not because I kept them, because I
by afandian 2y ago
If payslips are paper, people at least have a fighting chance of retaining them. I have payslips from when I was a teenager. Not because I kept them, because I never threw them away.
Electronic documents, however, need deliberate attention to keep.
- smallerfish 2y agoI purge paper after a year or two at most, and keep very limited important stuff digitally (I have my tax returns going back 5-10 years.) I really don't think many people keep substantial amounts of paper records. The government policy cited upthread was clearly a scandal; most UK citizens would be unable to satisfy the same standard of proof, if that was in fact the test.
- tokioyoyo 2y agoI have more electronic documents saved up from 15 years ago than paper ones. It works both ways though.
- yencabulator 2y agoLots of online things are not providing PDFs to download, and are making the web page layout miserable for "print to file" also -- collapsible sections that refuse to be all open, etc.
- tokioyoyo 2y agoI know it’s gonna sound stupid, but personally, I’ve literally never had problems. In extreme scenarios, I’ve gone as far as taking screenshots and saving it to my Dropbox and calling it a day. Having your screenshot folder to point to cloud storage then also having autobackups to somewhere else is a better storage than having a gigantic pile of papers.
- yencabulator 2y agoI don't disagree but I think the companies that still think in discrete report-style paper analogues are easier to archive, and that's slowly going away.