Do you usually give X weeks notice to your employer? Why, or why not?

Question

I'm aware that there are certain laws requiring that employees give advance notice before leaving a company. Curious about how common this practice is, and if folks are usually gracious enough to give even more advanced notice, e.g. four weeks when only two are required.

themodelplumber · Accepted Answer

A lot of people are happy to give more notice depending on the circumstances. In my past experience doing career coaching it really came down to an expression of the employer relationship characteristics.
In general it's a good idea to give some reasonable notice and it can even help you claim some respectability, again depending. If you might work with those coworkers again in the future it might also help them save face when deciding to work with you.
Some folks don't like it and would rather this be more info-transactional, like clicking "cancel account" but for now it's generally worth respecting where it applies.

annoyingnoob · Answer

I usually give two weeks.There was one job where I just quit and walked out - management was garbage (like not even present during business hours on the average day when I quit). It doesn't look good to your next employer though.I always thought it odd that a company will never give notice if you are going to be released but at the same time you are expected to give notice.I once hired someone that had just walked out on his previous employer, he walked out on us too. At some point it becomes a pattern to look out for.

ssss11 · Answer

Look after yourself first. If you can give more and choose to that&rsquo;s nice to do.I once gave more than the standard - I gave a few months&rsquo; notice to a company that had been good to me as there was no internal backfill to my role and I was moving overseas so there was no impact to my plans.