Employee offboarding checklist: close every door in one click

Good offboarding protects your business and respects the person leaving. Bad offboarding leaves working logins behind. Here is a checklist you can use today.

Before the last day

• Confirm the last working day in HR.
• Plan handover: open tasks, projects, customers and files.
• Reassign ownership of projects and recurring work.
• Settle leave balances and final dues with finance.
• Collect company devices, cards and keys.

On the last day

• Remove access to every business app.
• Remove access to email and shared drives.
• Change any shared passwords the person knew.
• Update the employee status in HR.
• Record what was removed and when.

After they leave

• Check the activity log for any sign in after the last day.
• Confirm handover items were received.
• Hold a short exit conversation and note feedback.

Why access removal is the step that fails

Most items on the list are one off tasks. Access removal is different: it repeats for every tool the person used, and it is easy to miss one. A single forgotten login is all it takes.

Close every door in one click

When every app uses one identity, offboarding access becomes one action. In efiqone, switching a person off blocks their login and every connected app stops trusting their session within a minute, and the action is recorded in the activity log.