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How to offboard an employee

An overview of how to process someone leaving your company in Sage HR.

Written by Oliver Cook

Step 1 - Set up offboarding

Before you offboard an employee, make sure you have set up your offboarding process.


Step 2 - Terminate employee

Make sure the employee is no longer active. If they’re still active but leaving soon, set a future termination date.


Step 3 - Assign offboarding tasks or workflow to the leaving employee

Assign any tasks the employee must complete before they leave, or tasks others need to complete for them.


Step 3 - Make employee / managers aware of their tasks

Pending tasks appear on employees’ dashboards in Sage HR. It’s still worth contacting them to remind them to complete these tasks.


Step 4 - Complete offboarding tasks

Pending tasks appear on employees’ dashboards in Sage HR. Each task shows the related employee’s name, a description, a due date, and an option to complete it.


Step 5 - Check status of offboarding tasks

Use the Offboarding report to track offboarding tasks and check which tasks are complete and which still need action.


Step 6 - (Optional) Delete terminated employee

If needed, you can delete the employee from Sage HR once you’ve terminated them and completed their offboarding process.

⚠️CAUTION: Deleting an employee is permanent. You’ll lose access to their employee record, and you won’t be able to rehire them. You’ll need to add them again manually.

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