two weeks' notice

Standard quitting timeline

Two weeks' notice is the customary advance warning an employee gives before leaving a job.

Though rarely a legal requirement, it's a professional convention allowing employers time to arrange coverage: She put in her two weeks' notice yesterday.

The phrase has become shorthand for quitting: I'm ready to give my two weeks' notice.

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departure · HR · employee · boss · handover · transition · last day · office · career · workplace · goodbye · final goodbye · coworker · exit interview · severance · employment · deadline · professional

Opposites
departure timing

two weeks' noticewalking out

Leaving suddenly, often angrily

storming out · ghosting · job abandonment · burning bridges · rage quitting

employment termination manner

two weeks' noticesummary dismissal

Immediate employment termination

job abandonment · wrongful termination

professional conduct

two weeks' noticeburning bridges

Ruining relationships irreparably

rage quitting · dramatic exit

Family

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