resignations
Letters of departure
Resignations are formal acts of leaving a position or office.
The word covers both the act itself and the documents that formalize it: The CEO handed in her resignation.
When someone submits a resignation, they voluntarily give up their role—though the voluntariness may be nominal when someone is pressured to resign rather than be fired.
Mass resignations can signal organizational crisis or protest.
Become aware of
- departureAct of going away
- leavingAct of going away
- quittingCeasing an activity
- turnoverSales volume or attrition
exit · letter · HR · handover · transition · clearance · offboarding · severance
Consent to receive
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- defeatVictory over another
- giving upChoosing to stop trying
despair · hopelessness · futility · acquiescence · submission · passivity · fatalism · yielding
Quantity of matter
- waveOscillating motion through medium
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- walkoutProtest by leaving
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
boycott · solidarity · strike · staff · workforce · crisis · shortage · retention
Enclosed storage furniture
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
- pressureForce upon contact
- controversyProlonged public disagreement
opposition · accountability · vote · parliament · administration · office · public · statement
Written symbol or message
- effective dateWhen something takes force
- signatureHandwritten name for verification
- submissionYielding to another's will
- writtenComposed in text
official · tendering · acceptance · acknowledgment · documentation · notification · HR department · recipient
notice
Become aware of
turnover · exit · letter · HR · handover · transition · clearance · offboarding · severance · replacement
acceptance
Consent to receive
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- defeatVictory over another
giving up · despair · hopelessness · futility · acquiescence · submission · passivity · fatalism · yielding · conceding
mass
Quantity of matter
protest · boycott · solidarity · strike · staff · workforce · crisis · shortage · retention · morale
cabinet
Enclosed storage furniture
controversy · opposition · accountability · vote · parliament · administration · office · public · statement · apology
letter
Written symbol or message
- effective dateWhen something takes force
- signatureHandwritten name for verification
- submissionYielding to another's will
written · official · tendering · acceptance · acknowledgment · documentation · notification · HR department · recipient · manager
- club rulesdress codes, confidentiality, dues, sponsorship, blackballing
- HR metricsheadcount, turnover rate, retention rate, attrition rate, absenteeism
- workforceworkers, employee, employees, labor force, employer
- utterancesutterance, statements, exclamation, assertion, questions
- work historyresume, CV, work experience, job titles, employers
- HR actionshiring, firing, layoff, promotion, demotion
resignationshirings
Acts of employing people
appointments · recruitments · onboardings · engagements · inductions
resignationsacceptances
Affirmative replies received
assumptions · undertakings · agreements · consents · affirmations
resignationsrecommitments
Acts of pledging anew
retentions · renewals · reaffirmations · dedications · continuations
- resignation letterDocument announcing job departure
- letter of resignationWritten notice of quitting
- forced resignationCompelled to step down
- resignation speechFormal exit announcement
- mass resignationMany employees quitting simultaneously
- voluntary resignationFreely chosen exit from employment