# Complete process for handling departed/former/previous employee **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the Community\ **Tags:** admin, tasks\ **Created:** [26 August 2023 00:48 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/complete-process-for-handling-departed-former-previous-employee/519181 "2023-08-26T00:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\ **Post date:** [26 August 2023 02:07 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/complete-process-for-handling-departed-former-previous-employee/519181/2 "2023-08-26T02:07:21Z")
Hi @AuntJan, Here are (IMO) the best resources for this topic: > [@Remove/Offboard/Deprovision (or Pause) a User from an Organization, and what to do beforehand](https://forum.asana.com/t/remove-offboard-deprovision-a-user-from-an-organization-and-what-to-do-beforehand/202645): > > Before you remove a user from your organization it’s good to take several steps to avoid possibly losing some item access (which could require Asana Support to restore). I couldn’t find this information in one place, and since it’s hard to remember when only periodically needed, I decided to create this as a reference. Before removing the user, consider carrying out these steps for any items you care about: Note: These steps are easiest to carry out if you log in with the credentials of the… > [@Offboarding report: a tool to manage an employee leaving](https://forum.asana.com/t/offboarding-report-a-tool-to-manage-an-employee-leaving/238785): > > Hi, If you have been using Asana for a while and were confronted with a user leaving, you know it usually leaves a trail of problems: templates they owned can’t be edited anymore, custom fields they created were locked, nobody is notified to update goals they owned… At iDO, we like to create useful tools, and we created [Offboarding report](https://minimalist-work.com/asana/offboarding-report). The tool will generate a report of all objects owned by someone leaving. Word of warning: we suggest the employee runs the tool themselves because they m… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.asana.com/t/complete-process-for-handling-departed-former-previous-employee/519181)._