Redundancy - Farewell E-mail

Thali

Hi there,

Everything is such a mess at the moment. I think hubby will receive is notice today. It's still not clear if this is by compromise agreement, redundancy or maybe they just kick him out.

Anyway, he would like to send out a farewell e-mail to his colleagues but also to the companies he worked for. Is there an appropriate way of saying that he's out (because of redundancy) and looking for a new job? Have you written/ received a farewell e-mail because of redundancy?

If it was me, I would write something along this lines:

http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/6459!!!!tns

However, I think I need to give birth to octuplets and never work again afterwards

Thanks!!

Thali

3plus1

Thali wrote: »

Is there an appropriate way of saying that he's out (because of redundancy) and looking for a new job? Have you written/ received a farewell e-mail because of redundancy?

Your link doesn't work? I've received a few, but not been in the position where I've had to write any. I think the best emails are the ones that are to the point ("I don't know what you've been told, but I've been made redundant and my last day is XX") and don't blame anyone. I think it's fine to throw in a line about what your future plans are.

MrsTinks

There si something in the link that is removed by the filters - if you click the link and search for 6459 it will bring the article up

Kavanne

How about '!!!! YOU ALL!!!'

motherhen2234

Keep it to the point, be polite and dont say anything negative about the company (despite temptation). If relevant thank the people your emailing for their help and support etc. I also included personal email details so people could stay ing touch if they wished. Myself and my team have just done our goodbye emails and followed these rules of thumb. I have had several people stay in touch and a batch of lovely emails as have the rest of my team. More importantly one now has a chat about a job next week as her name was passed on for the position due to her high reputation and her leaving email :-)

mandragora_2

You talk of a compromise agreement, so I'm guessing its not a straightforward situation. My OH sent a farewell email - v polite, just informing colleagues he was leaving and giving a contact point - the bosses did NOT like it at all, and it became more grist to their mill. As they'd done their worst by that point, it was water off a duck's back, but just thought I'd give a word of caution about doing anything that might make a difficult situation even harder.


When I left a workplace I'd been in for 15 years, I bought a nice address book and took it in. Then I invited colleagues to put their details in it if they wanted, so I could stay in touch with them. Nothing on record through workplace comms systems, all v personal and reasonable, and after that point, if there were one or two names in there of people I didn't especially like, well, I don't have to contact them, do I! It meant there were no hard feelings, and nobody had to to anything they didn't want to do.