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Offboarding, in plain English.
Workzoom defines Offboarding as follows. Offboarding is the structured exit of an employee: final pay, ROE/T4 issuance, equipment recovery, access revocation, exit interview, and knowledge transfer. Done well, it...
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The short answer
Offboarding is the structured exit of an employee: final pay, ROE/T4 issuance, equipment recovery, access revocation, exit interview, and knowledge transfer. Done well, it preserves morale and reduces compliance risk. Workzoom offboarding generates statutory year-end forms (ROE in Canada, P45 in the UK), revokes access, and triggers HR workflows automatically.
How Offboarding works.
Offboarding covers final pay, accrued entitlement payout, benefits termination, statutory documentation, access revocation, and asset return. Most jurisdictions time-box it: final pay and separation documents carry deadlines running from the termination date, not from when HR reaches the file. Access revocation is the step most often missed, because it spans every system the employee ever touched.
Where Offboarding goes wrong.
- System access left live past the termination date because revocation is manual and system by system.
- Accrued vacation paid at the current rate where the applicable rule requires the rate at which it was earned.
- Missing the statutory deadline for separation documents because the termination was recorded late.
Where Offboarding sits between HR and payroll.
Offboarding does not stand alone. The concepts most often paired with it on a Talent run are ROE, Onboarding. Each is defined elsewhere in this glossary so you can trace the full chain without leaving the site.
How Offboarding runs on Workzoom.
Offboarding is part of the Workzoom Talent Suite. Workzoom runs HR, workforce, and talent on a single employee record across ten countries: Canada, the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Full gross-to-net payroll runs live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. Pricing starts at $4 per employee per suite per month.
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