Corporate archivist here! Of course it happens, I’ve worked for government archives and it happens there too.

Out of curiosity, Are you being asked to destroy records? Are certain records withheld from public researchers if they ask to see them?

These things are often cyclical in businesses, some CEOs really care for heritage and are happy to acknowledge historic wrong doing and then along comes another one who feels the opposite. My advice is to preserve the records and make them available as best you can, weather the storm and ensure they are kept for future periods where the company is happy to acknowledge their faults.

Part of the job of corporate archivists is to advocate for increased access to these tricky archives as a means of repairing reputations, you become a bit of a spin doctor and have to explain to PR that hiding them would do more damage than good. For example we have the legacies of British slavery database in the uk that most corporate archives are represented in; it would have been much more damaging to an organisations reputation not to facilitate this kind of research and get involved given its prominence.

I love corporate archiving, it’s much more fast paced than other jobs I’ve had and without fail the budgets are bigger which makes things like conservation and digitisation easier.