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Offboarding, in plain English.
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Offboarding is the structured exit of an employee: final pay, statutory separation documents, equipment recovery, access revocation, exit interview, and knowledge transfer.
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Done well, it protects morale and reduces compliance risk. In Workzoom, an admin sets the employee's end date, and the offboarding checklist, including access revocation, runs against that date.
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, from payroll to shared drives to building badges, and each one has to be checked off individually.
Where Offboarding goes wrong.
- System access left live past the termination date is the most common failure, because revocation is manual and system by system, and any step skipped leaves a door open.
- A second is accrued vacation paid at the current rate where the applicable rule requires the rate at which it was earned.
- A third is missing the statutory deadline for separation documents because the termination was recorded in the system later than the actual last day.
- 2000 Running payroll since Workzoom has run Canadian payroll for 25+ years.
- Canadian data residency AWS Canada (ca-central-1). Canadian customer data stays in Canada.
- SOC 2-aligned controls Encrypted at rest, role-based access, immutable audit logs.
- Trusted in production County of Renfrew, Silvera for Seniors, and Cable Bahamas. Built for 50 to 5,000 employees.
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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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