Employee onboarding is a fairly well-known concept: the set of activities that get an employee up to speed and ready to perform effectively when he or she joins an organization. Onboarding has many components that most of us are well versed in, but what about employee offboarding? Does your organization have a formal employee offboarding program? If yes, what do you include?
For those of us who do not have an employee offboarding program, let’s look at the basics. Employee offboarding is the set of actions taken when an employee leaves an organization. It can have a lot of goals, such as:
