Currently, only administrators can assign retention policies to content in Box. This central control is important for compliance, but it also creates workflow bottlenecks when end users need to apply retention to content immediately for governance, regulatory, or project-specific reasons.

Allowing end users to apply pre-approved, administrator-created retention policies or templates to their own content would:

Empower teams to self-govern content in line with company compliance standards.

Reduce admin overhead and delays.

Ensure governance rules are applied at the point of content creation, rather than after-the-fact by admins.