“at our company, employees just disappear”

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager.

Ever realized you haven’t seen a particular coworker in weeks, asked around, and discovered they left the company a month ago and no one bothered to tell anyone? If you’ve worked for reasonably functional companies, hopefully the answer is “no.” But, whether through incompetence or design, a startling number of employers don’t announce it when employees depart — leaving their colleagues to piece it together themselves after their emails go unanswered for weeks.

At Slate today, I wrote about this bizarre and inefficient phenomenon. You can read it here.

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