My experience is mainly the 90s in the Bay Area, but we always were expected to be training our replacement and we were always being trained up if we wanted to

My experience is mainly the 90s in the Bay Area, but we always were expected to be training our replacement and we were always being trained up if we wanted to be. I've ran my teams this way and it's seemed to work fine except for the dead wood employees that I probably should have fired that I was handholding/micromanaging to try and help grow. Their responsibilities, when I was suddenly gone, were the most visible things that went to crap for my previously prepared replacement.