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0 pointskaraterobot3y ago0 comments

This doesn't seem correct to me. I've been in the industry coming up on 20 years, and I've never seen a company send someone home after putting in notice of resignation. Perhaps it happened and I didn't know about it, I can't rule that out, but I know that the majority of cases have not worked this way.

It's difficult to imagine why they would do this, since it would remove all the cushion that 2+ week period would provide the company for getting projects closed and documented, and bringing new people on to take over the employee's projects. It turns an unfortunate situation into an immediate crisis.

I have seen (recently) a company say "please, we are begging you not to resign, would you like to take a sabbatical and we can talk about it when you're back?"

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mcherm3y ago

> I've been in the industry coming up on 20 years, and I've never seen a company send someone home after putting in notice of resignation.

I have worked at a company that had a blanket policy of always doing this.

Let me be clear: it was a dumb policy. It resulted in employees waiting until their last day to tell the company that they were planning to leave. It created all kinds of havoc with the lack of knowledge transfer and handoff. And if it was intended to prevent exiting employee from taking malicious actions, it was completely ineffective at that since the employee would know about the policy and would choose not to disclose that they were leaving until after the head undertaken any malicious action.

But, I can say with some confidence that there are some tech companies that do this.

locusofself3y ago

> I've never seen a company send someone home after putting in notice of resignation.

only for people really underperforming, or going to a competitor

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