Offboarded

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of formally ending an individual's role within a company entails conducting an exit interview and disabling their access to systems
2. The procedure for disengaging an employee from a business involves the transfer of their duties and the retrieval of company property
3. The process of officially ending someone's involvement with an organization or assignment, including revoking their permissions and access

Etymology: "Offboarded" is the past tense and past participle of "offboard," a verb meaning to formally end someone's role or membership in an organisation, the reverse of "onboard." It is built from "off" and "board," and the pairing traces back to the phrase "off board," which is itself a combination of "off" and "board" used with the sense of leaving or being removed from a vessel, vehicle or group. The word follows the same pattern as "onboard," which was formed by combining "on" with "board" to mean getting aboard a ship, and later came to describe bringing a new employee or member into an organisation. "Offboard" grew up as its counterpart, so that removing a person from a team or company could be described in the same clipped, transport-derived language as taking on a new recruit.