The True Measure of a Company: How It Says Goodbye

You can tell much more about a company by the way it treats its people on their departure than you can by how it welcomes them on their arrival.

Almost all are magnanimous in the welcome, but few are magnanimous in the farewell.

And it matters how it ends, because as the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, reminded us: people are not a means to an end, they are an end in themselves.

In other words, people’s worth far exceeds their function, or their utility to your company.

At EG, we like to purchase a gift (up to the value of $1,000) for each and every person who has left us. We ask them to choose the gift, we ask that it be something tangible so it becomes a momento of their time with us, and we present it to them at their last EG staff meeting.

We can all welcome well, but how well do you farewell?