The same day
- Disable their email account, and forward or delegate it to a manager rather than deleting it.
- Remove them from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and sign out their sessions.
- Remove their access to the website admin, hosting, and domain registrar.
- Remove them from your Google Business Profile, Meta business tools, and other social accounts.
- Remove them from the password manager, booking, payments, CRM and accounting.
Then change shared passwords
Any login they knew but that you can’t give each person their own access to: the Wi-Fi, a supplier portal, a shared social account. A password manager makes this a few minutes’ work. See password managers for small teams.
Check what’s tied to them
- Accounts registered with their personal email or phone, especially the domain and the Google profile.
- Two-step sign-in codes going to their phone.
- Ads billed to their card, or subscriptions in their name.
- Devices they used for work.
Written by Nikita Huttenlocher, founder and lead engineer at Huttenlocher Technologies, a web design and software company in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.