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Ensuring e-Mail Compliance in the High-Tech Office

By Gregg Davis
August 27, 2007
While the construction industry has generally been slow to adopt new technology, Webcor Builders, a major commercial general contractor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has used technology to create a competitive advantage.

For Webcor, the importance of effective communication between employees is vital to controlling costs, meeting deadlines and creating a documentation trail. As a result, our employees on job sites use wireless tools, such as personal digital assistants and smartphones, to stay in constant communication with each other and individuals at corporate headquarters.

This increasing technology adoption is not only improving efficiency, it is helping address compliance with legal and industry mandates governing the retention and recall of e-mail communications.

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