If the team was truly so tight knit then you wouldn't need to write an email to convey that you are leaving. I'm personally always flabbergasted by people who write company wide farewell messages. It's a net negative for the company to hear about people leaving. It doesn't matter what the reason for leaving is except if it's that the person won the lottery. Any other reason: Why not stay here? What's so unsustainable about working here?
I’m the opposite. My company has this thing where people that leave send an email they’re leaving literally the afternoon they disappear, and sometimes nothing at all.
It feels like they’re sneaking out under the cover of night, and it makes everyone I need to work with feel very fungible. Getting attached to any given person is a dangerous excercise, since one day they might suddenly be gone, and you wouldn’t know it.
