---
title: 'Exit Survey'
description: 'Helps gently capture the reasons for leaving and understand which aspects of the work experience are important to improve for future employees.'
type: template
locale: en
canonical: 'https://app.teal.band/en/templates/exit'
---

# Exit Survey

Helps gently capture the reasons for leaving and understand which aspects of the work experience are important to improve for future employees.

## When to use

An employee has handed in their resignation. You want to gather honest and respectful feedback to understand the true reasons for leaving and find out what could have been done differently. This template will help you preserve good relationships and get data to reduce future turnover.

## Key facts

- **Categories:** 3
- **Questions:** 12
- **Respondent:** An employee who is leaving the company
- **Topic:** Lifecycle and retention

## What it diagnoses

- **The decision to leave:** What was decisive in leaving: the main factor, accumulation of causes, external pull, and an acute trigger.
- **Work experience:** Which elements of the work experience retained the employee or made leaving more likely.
- **Connection after leaving:** Whether trust, recommendation, and the conditions for an alumni or boomerang connection are preserved.

## Example questions

- In my decision to leave, the decisive factors were related to my experience working at the company.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What was the main factor in your decision, if it was not related to your experience working at the company?
- My decision to leave built up gradually, rather than arising from a single circumstance at the last moment.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What was the circumstance or event after which the decision came about quickly?
- A strong external opportunity or personal circumstances were an important part of my decision to leave.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** If external circumstances had almost no influence, what mattered more in your decision to leave?

## What the report contains

The report will group the responses of departing employees: what was the main reason for leaving, how they rate their overall work experience at the company, and how willing they are to recommend you or stay in touch. You will see the systemic issues that cause people to leave.

## Similar templates

- [Onboarding 30](https://app.teal.band/en/templates/onboarding_30.md) — Helps assess how clearly a new employee understands their role and whether they have enough access, support, and initial work guidance.
- [Stay Survey](https://app.teal.band/en/templates/stay.md) — Helps understand what keeps employees at the company and which issues may weaken their desire to stay.