2 weeks notice is only required by either side if the employment agreement requires it. (2 weeks = 2 weeks before the intended departure date, not the actual de

2 weeks notice is only required by either side if the employment agreement requires it. (2 weeks = 2 weeks before the intended departure date, not the actual departure date.) Otherwise, the standard is that either party can terminate the agreement at any time. Professional employment contracts (lawyers, accountants, programmers) usually have a 2-week notice requirement on the employee, but not on the employer. This is to allow for the orderly transition or wind-down of the employee's responsibilities to other employees. If the employer is terminating you immediately, they've already figured out what to do or effected the transition, so the 2 weeks is unnecessary. (Union contracts usually have a lengthy process for terminating employees, which is goverened by a very different set of rules (and laws)). Ergo, the suggestions Forrest makes in his blog post make no sense. He gave 2 weeks notice. His company did not need the full 2 weeks to transition his workload to another employee, so they terminated him the next day (or rather, the next business day).