HR & People Jargon · Vice President level

"Offboard"

"Offboard" means to complete the administrative and logistical process of separating an employee or contractor from an organization.

Say this instead: wrap up a departure

How "Offboard" shows up at work

HR's counterpart to onboarding, but with noticeably fewer welcome emails. The word does a lot of work to make a departure feel procedural and tidy, whether the circumstances were or not.

Buzzword

We need to offboard the contractor by end of week and revoke her system access.

Plain English

We need to wrap up the contractor's departure by end of week and revoke her system access.

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