Offboarding
Offboarding is the process of closing out an employment — notice, handover, asset return, access revocation and final settlement — from resignation to the last payment.
Also known as: employee exit process, exit process
The risk offboarding manages is not sentiment, it is exposure. An account left active after someone leaves, a laptop not returned, a customer relationship with no handover — each is a real cost, and each is invisible unless the exit is tracked as a process.
It runs on a clock. Access should end on the last working day, assets should be recovered before the settlement is released, and the settlement itself has a statutory timeline. Running these as separate informal tasks is how one of them gets missed.
A good offboarding process also produces the record that makes the relieving and experience letters trivial to issue, rather than a request someone chases months later.
Handled in SignHR
Onboarding & Offboarding
Joining to exit in one flow: offer letters, digital joining forms, e-signatures, welcome workflows, clearance checklists, and full-and-final settlement.
See onboarding & offboardingRelated terms
Full and Final Settlement (F&F)
Full and final settlement is the closing calculation when an employee leaves — everything still owed to them, less everything they owe, paid as one amount after the last working day.
Relieving Letter
A relieving letter confirms that an employee has been formally released from their obligations on a given date, having served notice and completed handover.
Exit Interview
An exit interview is a structured conversation with a departing employee about why they are leaving and what the organisation could have done differently.
Notice Period
Notice period is the time an employee must continue working after resigning, or that an employer must give before terminating, as set by the employment contract.