Transferring all content to someone else is not scalable in a large organisation.
Assuming most users have mostly personal notes that are not relevant once they leave the organisation and a smaller amount of stuff that is shared with a team or department and needed after the user leaves. A smaller percentage of users own critical shared folders.
In a large organisation there is a need for a standardised process, as there are too many users coming and going to handle each case individually.
Imagine a process where all content owned by a deleted user is always transferred to the manager of that user. In this case managers would have to delete 90% of the stuff they get transferred, to ensure those 10% that is relevant to keep is not deleted. That is a lot of time wasted sifting through mostly useless stuff.
This problem could be solved by allowing Box to automatically transfer ownership of a shared folder if one or more co-owners exists (select one randomly if there are multiple).
Most people I have talked to about this issue seems to assume that is how co-ownership works in the first place and are surprised to learn it is not how it works. So it seems like an intuitive feature.
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Transferring all content to someone else is not scalable in a large organisation.
Assuming most users have mostly personal notes that are not relevant once they leave the organisation and a smaller amount of stuff that is shared with a team or department and needed after the user leaves. A smaller percentage of users own critical shared folders.
In a large organisation there is a need for a standardised process, as there are too many users coming and going to handle each case individually.
Imagine a process where all content owned by a deleted user is always transferred to the manager of that user. In this case managers would have to delete 90% of the stuff they get transferred, to ensure those 10% that is relevant to keep is not deleted. That is a lot of time wasted sifting through mostly useless stuff.
This problem could be solved by allowing Box to automatically transfer ownership of a shared folder if one or more co-owners exists (select one randomly if there are multiple).
Most people I have talked to about this issue seems to assume that is how co-ownership works in the first place and are surprised to learn it is not how it works. So it seems like an intuitive feature.