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Quitting your job? Don’t keep quiet

The process of leaving a company goes beyond handing in your resignation letter, doing handovers and packing up — a really important part of it lies in how to tell people you’re going

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Jeanette Tan

Jeanette Tan

Published Mon, Dec 19, 2022 · 05:50 AM
    • Don't neglect thinking about how to communicate your departure to your colleagues and teams.
    • Don't neglect thinking about how to communicate your departure to your colleagues and teams. PHOTO: FILE

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    I’LL be upfront and say this — I’ve never resigned from a company before, so perhaps I have no business talking about whether or when one’s departure from a company should be made public (to the rest of the person’s colleagues).

    That being said, I have always perceived news of a person’s decision to leave the company they work for to be sensitive – or at the very least, “not my news to share”.

    Until a colleague I was speaking with one day asked me, but why? Why be shy about talking to someone about their departure? Why should this be a secret, or something not to be discussed openly?

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