A 4TB hard drive now lists for $150. This means that 50MB costs a fraction of a penny, and the price is dropping.
Every second that a minimum-wage employee spends deleting emails to get down to that low a quota is a flagrant waste of money. The higher-paid the employee, the more flagrant the waste.
This is seriously like paying your employees to collect individual pieces of pine straw so you can save money on landscaping.
Not to mention the fact that those emails probably contain data that's worth more than their storage cost, especially if they're searchable.
Indeed. Hence the question is a useful filter, to identify and avoid companies who have incredibly outdated email systems and technology policies. They won't be leading-edge in anything else either.
Similar: "What does your company use for email? Lotus Notes?" (Unless you're applying to IBM itself.)
A 4TB hard drive now lists for $150. This means that 50MB costs a fraction of a penny, and the price is dropping.
Every second that a minimum-wage employee spends deleting emails to get down to that low a quota is a flagrant waste of money. The higher-paid the employee, the more flagrant the waste.
This is seriously like paying your employees to collect individual pieces of pine straw so you can save money on landscaping.
Not to mention the fact that those emails probably contain data that's worth more than their storage cost, especially if they're searchable.