A recent experience with the exit process used by a company spurred me to write about the process by which an organization terminates employees or contractors.
The very first question is, does your organization have both policy and procedures to deal with:
a) employees leaving voluntarily
b) employees being terminated
c) contractors coming and going
d) special cases
The next question is, do your employees actually follow the policies and procedures, or is there a fair amount of ad-libbing? Discretion in the hands of line management can be a good thing, or a recipe for disaster. I have alsways found checklists to be a good thing.
One employer I left I walked my replacement through the checklist, in case I had forgotten to put anything on it before I left. Good trial run for a new procedure. A friend of mine described a special case where a company founder left, however none of his access was changed. Another special case can be letting systems administrators or people like penetration testers go.
So, some of the things to address are:
- Physical access
- Logical access
- Anything only that person has access to, or special privileges.
- All property
- Non-disclosure agreement reminder
- Intellectual property issues
Cheers,
Adrien de Beaupr
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