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to offboard

to offboard

8.1
To remove an employee from a company by completing needed exit tasks
  • verb
  • /ˈɔfˌbɔrd/
  • Jargon
translation icon : dar de baja
  • After being offboarded, she returned all company property and deactivated her accounts.

Examples

  • All employees who resign must be properly offboarded to ensure security compliance.

  • The HR team is responsible for offboarding departing staff members effectively.

  • The manager will offboard the employee next week.

  • We need to offboard John before the end of the month.

  • All employees who resign must be properly offboarded to ensure security compliance.

  • After being offboarded, she returned all company property and deactivated her accounts.

  • The HR team is responsible for offboarding departing staff members effectively.

Synonyms

to lay off
vsto offboard
87 3.3

Stop employing someone because the company cannot afford them, not because of bad work

is a formal exit process completed through required procedures
to boot out
vsto offboard
  • Informal
15 5.8

Force someone to leave a job or organization suddenly

is a planned formal transition following proper exit steps
to off board
vsto offboard
  • US
7.5

To remove a person from a job or system when they stop working there

has identical meaning but is written as two separate words

Antonyms

to onboard
  • Jargon
1 4.1

To help a new person join a team by giving information and support

Surface Forms

offboard infinitive
offboarded past
offboarded past participle
offboarding present participle
offboards third person singular

Morphology

offboard = board (transparent) = off + board

Formed by the productive separative prefix 'off-' plus the verb 'board', yielding the expected meaning 'to remove/transition someone out'.

Etymology

Offboard comes from putting off- (meaning 'away from' or 'remove') in front of board, like in onboard where board suggests being 'on a ship' or 'on the team'. So, to offboard someone is to take them 'off' the company by finishing their exit steps and removing their access.