I've noticed a trend recently - perhaps it falls into the "lots of anecdotes don't constitute data" bucket, but it seems that many companies are reacting badly when people put in their notice, and immediately terminating them, rather than letting them ...
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I've noticed a trend recently - perhaps it falls into the "lots of anecdotes don't constitute data" bucket, but it seems that many companies are reacting badly when people put in their notice, and immediately terminating them, rather than letting them work out their notice period.
Now, in my career, I have on several occaisions chosen to immediately terminate someone's access once I learn that they are going to a competitor, but even there I paid them through their notice period.
If what I am seeing is an actual trend, I think we are going to start seeing employees (rightly) quitting with no notice period.
(the notice period in the US is customarily 2 weeks. I know that it is very different in other countries, and in some places, this is covered by employment law, but here in the US, it's a goat rodeo).
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@jerry in my field it's been because the person quitting has wide access to resources that could be damaging. more of a cover your ass type situation i think. doubt i'll ever quit without notice, though. bridge burning seems ill advised.
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@hobbsc @jerry If you can’t trust your workers to do their jobs ethically after they’ve given notice, you can’t trust them before then either.
If they’re being fired, sure, terminate access immdiately. If you think it’s too risky to allow access after notice has been given, you owe it to the departing employee to pay them for the notice period.
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@donaldball @hobbsc @jerry also, depending on the jurisdiction and the agreements in place, pay for the notice period they would have had may be a legal obligation and not just a moral one
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@ireneista @donaldball @hobbsc @jerry in most of Europe you're legally obligated to pay the employee for the entire notice period. In the UK if you tell the employee to stop coming in, this is colloquially called gardening leave, from the implied activity they'll be doing for the time.
Interestingly, In Germany placing an employee gardening leave without their consent is typically illegal. Most people probably won't refuse if asked, but smaller multinationals have been known to do it unilaterally which can result in large fines at an employment tribunal (this is basically a downstream result of the principle that an employee cannot have their job description changed arbitrarily without their consent)