How to Offboard Someone From Your Systems Safely

To offboard someone from your systems, two things have to happen together: their access ends, and the record of what they did remains intact.

Where offboarding goes wrong

Removal is treated as deletion, and something breaks as a result.

Historical changes attributed to a missing user
Processes that depended on them as an approver stalling
Records they owned left with no responsible person
Access to shared channels ending with no handover

What to do, in order

Reassign ownership of their records and cost centres first
Confirm approval routing does not depend on them alone
Hand over their followed processes to whoever covers them
Deactivate the user, rather than deleting them
Review what changed in the period before departure, if warranted

How to do it in Jestor

Reassign the responsible person on their cost center records in Jestor.
Confirm cost centres list more than one responsible user where cover is needed.
Turn on table following for whoever takes over their processes.
Deactivate the user; removed users are marked inactive rather than deleted.
Filter the table history by user and date to review the period if needed.

Why choose Jestor for clean offboarding?

Jestor marks removed users as inactive rather than deleting them, which means every historical change still resolves to an identifiable person — a requirement for any audit that covers the period.

Because inactive users can be filtered separately, an access review can distinguish current staff from departures without either list contaminating the other.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are departed users deleted?

No, they are marked inactive so history stays intact. See jestor.com.

What should be reassigned first?

Cost centre ownership and approval routing.

Can I review what they changed?

Yes, by filtering the history by user and date.

Video Tutorial: Step by Step

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