> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Employee Departed

> A person left this company for another.

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  <Card title="Signal key" icon="code">
    `employee_departed`
  </Card>

  <Card title="Category" icon="category">
    People
  </Card>

  <Card title="Source" icon="world">
    Person Professional Network profile (current company field).
  </Card>
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A person left this company for another.

## When it fires

<Card title="Trigger condition" icon="bolt">
  A person's `current_company` changed from this company to another. Attributed to the company they left.
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## Magnitude

Bucketed on role seniority; executive departures rank far higher.

Buckets are assigned from the percentage change between snapshots:

| Bucket     | Condition                   |
| ---------- | --------------------------- |
| `low`      | 1% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 5%   |
| `moderate` | 5% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 15%  |
| `high`     | 15% ≤ \|delta\_pct\| \< 30% |
| `hyper`    | \|delta\_pct\| ≥ 30%        |

## Why it matters

Departures can open gaps and create urgency. A departure may remove a champion or open a role you can influence, and it's the foundation for c\_suite\_departure, founder\_departure, and the churn composites.

## How to read it

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  <Card title="Gap created">
    Departures can remove champions or open influence windows.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Composite fuel">
    Underpins c\_suite\_departure, founder\_departure, churn signals.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Re-map needed">
    Lost champions mean re-qualifying the account.
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## Outreach playbook

<Tip>
  Base layer. Track executive departures closely; they reshape buying committees.
</Tip>

## Related signals

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  <Card title="C-Suite Departure" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/c-suite-departure">
    A C-level executive left the company.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Founder Departure" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/founder-departure">
    A founder left the company.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Key Role Vacancy" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/key-role-vacancy">
    A senior role stayed unfilled for 60 days.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Leadership Churn Spike" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/leadership-churn-spike">
    Multiple senior leaders departed in a short window.
  </Card>
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