Employee offboarding software
Hand over every duty when people leave
Automated offboarding: name a successor on the termination, and the next day reports, approvals, and flows move to them. What can't move is closed.
When someone leaves, their work stays behind
Reports still list the leaver as manager, requests wait in their queue, and their flows lose an owner. HR finds the last one when a process breaks.
Name a successor on every termination
The termination form won't save without a person in Handover to. Pick anyone who stays; they don't need to take over the role. If the successor has left too, Skailer takes the first active person up the chain.
Move everything they owned the day after they leave
The handover runs once, the day after the termination date. Direct reports get the successor as manager, with a new position record. Departments, flows, integrations, goals, and job offers change owner, and approvals move.
Close what can't change hands so nothing waits
A signature holds the signer's own identity, so open signing requests are cancelled and the requester is told to resend. Open review and survey forms close, their own requests stop, and their mailbox is disconnected.
Run exit steps on dates tied to the termination
Handover covers what lives in Skailer. Flows run the rest: IT collects the laptop, the manager plans knowledge transfer, the team hears the news, and the Google Workspace account can be deleted on the last day.
Keep the history so every exit stays traceable
Termination ends the employment, and the record stays: profile, Employment history, and position changes. Reasons come from your own lists, and a future termination switches status to Terminated on that date.
Close the loop that onboarding opened
Offboarding works on the record onboarding started. Handover is built into every termination; Flows add the exit steps your team runs.
What is employee offboarding in Skailer?
Employee offboarding in Skailer is the termination process that hands a departing employee's work to a named successor. HR records the termination date, reason, and the required Handover to person. The day after, Skailer moves their direct reports, departments, flows, integrations, goals, and approvals. It cancels signature requests and review forms that can't be reassigned, settles time off, and logs every change. The profile and history stay.
See every change a departure made
Each termination keeps an audit log of its automatic changes. Nothing personal changes hands: the mailbox is disconnected and signatures cancelled. Deleting a profile needs its own right.
What the model shows for a 500-person company
OFFBOARDING WORK
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See where offboarding checklists stop
Most HR tools treat offboarding as a checklist of tasks due before the last day. Finding every place a person's name is attached and reassigning it usually stays with HR.
| Capability | Spreadsheets & email | Checklist-based tools | Skailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Successor | Named in an email, if at all | Handover written up as a task | Required, with a fallback chain |
| Reports & departments | Reassigned by hand | Usually updated manually | Moved the day after the termination |
| Approvals in progress | Wait until someone notices | Often rerouted by hand | Move in open requests and policy stages |
| Flows & integrations | Lose their owner | Varies by vendor | Change owner automatically |
| Signatures & reviews | Stay open | Closed by hand | Cancelled, requester notified |
| Record of changes | None | Task completion history | Audit log of every automatic change |
How employee offboarding works in Skailer
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Employee offboarding: common questions
What is employee offboarding software in Skailer?
It's the termination process that hands a departing employee's work to a successor. Skailer moves their reports, departments, flows, integrations, goals, and approvals, closes what can't be reassigned, and runs exit steps on dates tied to the termination.
Who takes over a departing employee's work?
What happens to approvals when an employee leaves?
Does Skailer remove a departing employee's access?
Should I terminate or delete an employee who is leaving?
Is the offboarding process in Skailer just a flow?
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