Editor’s note: Tech Works is a monthly column by longtime New Stack contributor Jennifer Riggins that explores workplace conditions, management ideas, career development and the tech job market as it affects the people who build and run the software the world relies on. We welcome your feedback, and ideas for future columns.
Tech layoffs continue to dominate our social media feeds. And, as several tech companies report record earnings, a lot of it feels egregious, senseless and arbitrary. While nobody likes goodbyes, there are better ways to go about it.
Losing a job can be brutal, but some companies are making it feel worse for workers than it needs to be. Heck, a lot of tech workers aren’t even sure if they’ve been laid off or if their Slack is just down. And this often public, very negative experience means those workers that survive layoffs quickly start shopping around, too.
No matter whose choice it is to leave, the tech industry really should be adopting a more humane employee offboarding process. Here’s some guidance — and some reasons why saying goodbye the right way matters.
The 2022 State of Offboarding Process Automation Report by Oomnitza, a technology management platform, found that almost half of those surveyed didn’t have standardized employee offboarding automated workflows in place — or if they did, the senior-level IT professionals responding weren’t aware of them. This correlates with other key findings...
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