Message #48375

[potofgold]

Two weeks' notice doesn't give your employer much time to source a replacement or arrange a handover?

I've been on one-month's notice in my last couple of jobs - but have found that it takes on average three-months for a replacement to start work (mainly from the time it takes to recruit and assuming that the successful candidate will also work one-month's notice in their current job).  Saying that, I work in the public sector and we're restricted on recruitment methods (we're not allowed to use agencies to recruit permanent staff as it goes against our equal opps policy).

My boss is on three-months' notice (Senior Director) and the Chief Exec is on either six-months or one-year (I don't remember which).  I think these again reflect the expected time to source a replacement.  Obviously there are means of negotiating early release when someone hands in their notice (and sometimes, depending on your role, you can be asked to leave immediately and then be paid until your employment has actually finished - this happened to my friend when she left a senior PA role with an engineering company... in fact, she was escorted from the time she handed her letter in until the time she left the building).

PS I'm in the UK.

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