What happens when an employee leaves your organization? For many companies, termination procedures are loosely stitched together across email, paper trails, and private conversations.This isn’t just bad for departing employees. It’s bad for business.According to research from OneLogin, 20 percent of IT decision-makers said failure to remove ex-employees from corporate networks resulted in a data breach. To prevent lapses and ensure adherence to company policy, organizations must ditch risky manual offboarding practices for automated digital workflows.Here are four compelling reasons to automate your employee offboarding process:
1. Ensure security and compliance
In an ideal world, an employee offboarding process is a systematic way to manage departures and minimize risk.In the real world, companies with inconsistent offboarding practices often contend with data security issues as a result. When an organization’s offboarding process is poorly defined, disjointed, or dependent on paper, important termination policies—like deprovisioning accounts—can easily slip through the cracks.In a survey of 500 IT decision-makers, OneLogin found that 25 percent of respondents take more than one week to deprovision former employees. And another quarter of respondents reported not knowing how long these accounts remain active after an employee leaves.Whether someone quits or gets fired, organizations must revoke access to allcorporate accounts to maintain data security and prevent ex-employees from placing them in a vulnerable position, whether intentionally or inadvertently.To achieve this at scale, forward-thinking companies use automated workflow solutions that can close user accounts automatically.
