Employee Offboarding: The Security Checklist Most Northern Alberta Businesses Skip

This article presents a practical 18-point offboarding checklist for M365-based small and medium businesses, highlights the social and procedural failure modes common in tight-knit northern Alberta communities, documents contractor/seasonal-worker edge cases, and outlines a 24-hour to 30-day timeline to complete technical and non-technical exit tasks to reduce preventable security incidents.