Giving 2 Weeks Notice...Ok to submit via email? (collect, work, companies)

[Perryview22]

I am wondering what is considered acceptable in these times. Is it acceptable to resign via email or should it be done in person?

[GiantRutgersfan]

Should be done in person

[NJBest]

Personally, I would calender a 1 on 1 in person for this.

[Yzette]

I can't believe that people are sufficiently unprofessional and devoid of communications skills in this day and age that this is even a question.

Go on. Resign by email. They'll fire you and save themselves two weeks of your salary.

[kodaka]

Put it in writing unless there's a reason not to (e.g.., the recipient is out of the office but checking email, or doesn't work in your office and mailing it would cut into your two weeks' notice).

[lostinca]

I wouldnt even think of doing that, I thought giving notice had to be a face to face thing? What about if you need to use this company as a reference in the future?

[SXMGirl]

Type your resignation letter, make an appointment, take the letter with you, and resign in person while handing in your resignation letter. Some things should be done in person.

[avg12]

Many companies don't accept it in email, so that wouldn't work anyways. Most need a signed letter.

[kodaka]

Originally Posted by avg12

Many companies don't accept it in email, so that wouldn't work anyways. Most need a signed letter.

"don't accept" it?? What are they going to do--force someone to keep working because they don't approve of the method of delivery?

Written delivery is proper etiquette but to say it is required is another matter.

[43north87west]

Originally Posted by Perryview22

I am wondering what is considered acceptable in these times. Is it acceptable to resign via email or should it be done in person?

Depends on the company--mostly the size of the company. I'd tell your direct superior in a 1:1 meeting, as the direct superior will be the person who knows you best, and could function as a reference.

Thereafter, if you want to submit it via email to someone you never met in some office to which you have never been, so that you stop getting paid on the right day, and collect your vacation or whatever you might have remaining, send it by email. An HR department isn't a "professional reference", they just provide some standard info.