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A former company I was at was really weirdly tight-lipped about people leaving.

I'm sure totally unrelatedly, we got dinged a bunch on our SOC2 reports improper "off-boarding" and not removing access from terminated folks since no one knew to remove them.

Once we added quarterly SOC2 controls to make sure only employees had accounts it was always a shock to see who had to be removed.

I know the intent was to improve morale, but it had the opposite effect.

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That definitely sounds bad. I wonder what sort of justification they had to not tell people who left?

Not having closure is one of the most common grievances people have about relationships, friends, lovers, siblings, or colleagues that disappear.

It seems purposely malicious.

Agreed the lack of closure was frustrating.

Stemming the tide maybe? Don't want people to leave when they see a respected or well tenured person leave / get laid off?

All happened after an acquisition, so I'm not sure if this was business as usual for the other company or in response to increased attrition.

We ended up with an alumni slack like others here have mentioned.

I've had companies use privacy concerns as an excuse, which was hilarious. They couldn't tell us who left because they wanted to respect the laid-off people's privacy so the entire company spent the day compiling a list of all the deactivated Slack accounts. Great job!

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