Aug 13, 2018, 1:59 PM
(from SHRM) Meaningful exit interviews can help employers identify and work to correct morale or culture problems, protect property, improve processes and avert legal challenges later. The purpose "is to obtain information that will hopefully improve the employer's relationship with its employees and their employment experience," said Melanie Pate, an attorney with Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie. It's also your chance to retrieve the organization's property and materials. Ask departing employees to identify all the locations where business information might be housed, including paper copies and external hard drives. "Tell us all the places where that information exists, don't destroy it, and let's make arrangements to get it back," said Robert Yonowitz, an attorney with Fisher Phillips.
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