Document control is also essential to prevent information loss. It’s not unheard of for a particularly knowledgeable employee’s loss (due to any reason, from resignation to death) to cripple an R&D/manufacturing project, a QA program, or a related process. Document control ensures that a company can keep important information in place in case of disaster.

This is just one of the many benefits of document control, of course. As others have mentioned it leads to enhanced transparency, better assessment ability, and improved accountability. In general, document control benefits a business more than it may benefit individual employees. As such, it may be worth incentivizing superior document control by employees in some ways. And as others have mentioned, a well-developed protocol that instructs employees on good documentation practice will save them a lot of time and frustration.