What is this document for? Offboarding team members is a sensitive time. The aim of this policy is to create transparency around how this process works. This offboarding policy does not apply to regular contractors who are doing short term work for us.
In this case, the team member chooses to leave RootFI.
We ask for 30 days of notice by default (unless locally a different maximum or minimum limit applies), and for you to work during that notice period. This is so we have some time to find someone to hire and to enable a handover. Please assume by default we will expect you to work all of this period. In some rare situations, for roles such as recruitment, we may request you work only part of this period - it'd be weird to be recruit people whilst you are just about to leave.
If you are a current team member and you are thinking about resigning from PostHog, we encourage you to speak with your manager to discuss your reasons for wanting to leave. While we don't want to persuade anyone who is unhappy to stay, you may find that the best solution involves changing things here at PostHog, rather than going somewhere else.
If resignation is the only solution after you have discussed your concerns, please send an email communicating your intention to resign to your manager or the people team. We will then start a discussion around what is needed for the handover.
In this case, we are letting the team member go.
This is generally for performance reasons or because the company's needs have changed and the role can no longer be justified. If the decision is down to performance issues, we will have already communicated feedback to the individual and given them time to take the feedback on board. However, performance issues sadly can't always be resolved, which means we might ultimately need to end someone's employment.
We will usually ask you to stop working immediately. If you have been with us for at least 1 year, you will be paid 3 months of salary as severance. Otherwise, you will be paid 1 month of salary as severance.
In the case of voluntary departure, we will ask the team members if they wish to share what they're up to next with the team.
In the case of involuntary departure, we will aim to be as transparent as possible about the reasons behind the departure, while respecting the individual's privacy.
Please be aware that PostHog cannot always provide context around why people are leaving when they do.
For involuntary leavers, we will schedule a call.
We will then send over an email covering the following points with the team member: