When it comes to creating a holistic employee experience, organizations often focus on creating a positive first impression and forget about the last one. Recently, there has been a need among organizations for systematic implementation of farewell activities for departing employees. This constitutes an offboarding process, which involves all of the activities prior to the employee's departure from the organization. The purpose of the research is to gain insight into the trends of implementing the offboarding process in Slovenia, the activities involved, and its most common concerns or perceived obstacles. The research was conducted in two parts – the first part involved the use of a short exploratory survey for HR professionals involved in the offboarding process and employees with experience in job transitions. The second part consisted of conducting semi-structured interviews with HR professionals working in Slovenian organizations. The results indicate that majority of organizations have at least partially established offboarding processes. They pay the most attention to the activities required by law, conducting exit interviews and deactivating access to confidential information. They perceived the main purpose of the process in obtaining feedback on the organizational processes and creating a positive experience for the departing individual. The most common concerns of HR professionals are the loss of confidential information, the difficulty of implementing a systematic process, and finding an employee's replacement in time. People with experience in job transitions express a desire for a more systematic process and for more frequent opportunities to explain their decision or decisions of their employer. Given some of the differences in perceptions of the process between HR professionals and employees with experience in job transitions, it would be reasonable to consider more systematic planning of the offboarding process within organizations. A set of proposed activities within each step of the process is listed at the end of the research.
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