Congrats + one specific thing you'll miss (a project, a habit, a running joke, a strength they bring) + a genuine send-off. Every good goodbye message is some version of that three-part sentence. Everything else — the length, the tone, the medium — is style.
Someone on your team just got a new job and you have about two minutes to write something before their farewell Slack thread scrolls past. You want it to sound like you actually meant it, not like you copy-pasted the same "so proud of you" as everyone else. That's what this page is for.
Every message below is grouped by tone and relationship, so you can jump to what fits. Pick one, personalize the details, and hit send. If you're leaving a farewell card, mix and match a few lines. The button on each card copies the text to your clipboard.
Warm & heartfelt (for coworkers you'll actually miss)
These are the ones for the people who made your workdays better. Warm, specific, personal.
Genuinely thrilled for you. I'm going to miss our afternoon coffee walks more than I want to admit. The new team is lucky — go do great things.
Working with you has been one of the best parts of my time here. Congrats on the new chapter — I can't wait to hear how you shake things up over there.
You've earned this. Every part of it. Thank you for teaching me more than any of my managers ever did — I'll be borrowing your notes for years.
Selfishly, I don't want you to go. But when I zoom out, this is such a great next move for you and I'm genuinely proud. Congrats.
Congrats! You're the kind of coworker who makes people love their jobs. Whoever's about to work with you next has no idea how good they're going to have it.
Really happy for you — and really sad for me. Please stay in touch. I mean it, not the LinkedIn version of it.
You made this place better every single day you were here. I hope the new role gives you the runway your talent deserves. Congrats.
Ok, congrats — but also, how do we still get lunch every other Tuesday? Don't be a stranger.
The best coworkers are the ones who make hard days feel manageable, and you were that person for a lot of us. Congratulations on the new role — go be brilliant somewhere else.
I've had a lot of coworkers in my career. Very few of them made me feel this way about them leaving. Congrats — genuinely, thoroughly, no-notes proud of you.
Funny & casual (for the coworker you traded memes with)
These land best for the people you had inside jokes with. Warm-funny, not roast-funny.
Congrats on the new job. Extremely rude of you to leave me alone with the Monday standups but I forgive you.
Traitor. Deserter. I'm putting you in my LinkedIn Recommendations tab out of pure spite. Congrats — the drinks are on you next time.
Wait, so you're saying you're leaving *before* we get espresso machines in the office? Rude. But also, hugely deserved — congrats.
Please rate your new Slack notifications experience out of 10. Congrats on graduating from our chaos into some other chaos.
Every good story needs a sequel. Yours just went into pre-production. Congrats — try not to hire anyone away from us this quarter.
Congratulations on your successful escape. Please send help — and screenshots of your new office.
Ok fine, be great somewhere else. But if you take our shared meme folder with you, we're going to have a problem. Congrats!
I'm not crying, you're crying. Congrats on the promotion, the raise, and the new lanyard. Your new team is going to love you.
Your leaving means I'm now the person who knows how the printer works. This is a betrayal of the highest order. Congrats.
Congrats — please negotiate hard, take the sign-on bonus, and buy something absolutely unnecessary with the first paycheck. You earned it.
Professional & polite (for coworkers you didn't know well)
These are for when you're writing a "farewell email to the whole team" reply or signing a group card for someone you saw around but didn't work closely with. Warm, appropriate, no forced familiarity.
Congratulations on the new role. Wishing you a smooth transition and every success in this next chapter.
Best of luck in the new position. It's been a pleasure being on the same team, and I hope our paths cross again.
Huge congrats. From everything I've seen, you're going to make a real impact wherever you land. Wishing you the best.
Congratulations on the exciting news. Thank you for your contributions here — they'll be felt for a long time.
Wishing you the very best in your new role. It's clear this is a well-earned opportunity, and I'm sure you'll thrive.
Congratulations! I've always appreciated the professionalism you brought to every project we crossed paths on. Best of luck.
All the best in your new adventure. Onwards and upwards.
Congratulations. New chapters are always exciting — I hope this one is everything you're hoping it will be.
For a boss or manager who's leaving
The rule for messages to managers is: be specific and be sincere. Executives can smell performative appreciation from a mile away. Pick one real thing they did that helped you, and thank them for it.
Congratulations on the new role. Thank you for being the manager who taught me to ask for the promotion instead of waiting for it. That lesson is going to follow me my whole career.
The new team is getting one of the best managers I've ever worked for. Thank you for hiring me, backing me, and being direct when it mattered. I owe you a lot.
Congrats on the move. I'll always remember you as the manager who protected the team's focus even when it wasn't the easy call. Rare and appreciated.
Thank you for two years of the most useful 1:1s I've ever had. I stole half your management style already; I'll be stealing the rest as I grow. Congratulations.
Congratulations. You made hard quarters bearable and good quarters memorable. I'm going to miss having you as a manager — and I'll be watching what you build next with a lot of interest.
The best thing about working for you was that I always knew where I stood. I don't take that for granted. Congratulations on the new chapter — the team you're joining is very lucky.
For a close friend / best friend at work
These are for the "we started here together" and "we survived that quarter" people. The tone can go emotional without feeling out of place.
Look at you. I remember when you told me you were even thinking about applying and now here you are. So proud I could scream. Congrats.
You're one of the biggest reasons I still love this job. So even though I'm sad, I'm mostly just grateful. Congrats — and we better still get drinks next week.
Every big life update from you in the last few years, I've been the first person you told. This one hits different. Congratulations — you deserve every bit of it.
The workplace friendship of the decade. Congrats on the new role — don't you dare drop off the group chat.
Congrats — and thank you for being the person I could always be honest with about how work was really going. Rare, valuable, non-negotiable. Please stay in the loop.
You've been holding this team together in a hundred invisible ways. I hope the new team sees it faster than we did. Congratulations.
For LinkedIn comments
Public congratulations are their own genre. The winning formula: comment on the person, not the achievement. And pick one specific thing to name.
Massive congrats — the way you handled our platform migration last year is going to be a huge asset in this role. Excited to see what you build.
Congrats! You're one of the sharpest thinkers on culture and design I've had the pleasure of working with. Onward. 🎉
Congratulations! You made every project you touched better. Whoever hired you played a very smart hand.
Congrats! Big fan. Bigger fan of your new team. Go win.
Enormous congrats. I've watched you grow through some genuinely hard chapters — this next one is well-earned.
You're going to be so good at this role. Congrats — and I'll be that annoying former coworker who won't stop bragging about you.
Congratulations! One of those hires that's going to age extremely well for them.
Quick one-liners (for Slack, a group card, or a hallway wave)
When you have five seconds and just need something warm and specific.
Congrats! Cheering loudly from the cheap seats. 🎉
Well-deserved. Enjoy every second of the new-role honeymoon.
Onwards, upwards, and outwards. Congratulations. 💫
Huge congrats — go take up as much space as they'll give you.
Go be brilliant. Congratulations.
Best news of my week. Congrats.
Every place gets a little better when you show up. Congrats.
Sending you a virtual high-five. Absolutely deserved.
For a coworker leaving for a startup / dream job
These lean into the specific arc — the bet they're taking, the excitement of the change.
Betting on yourself is the best decision you can make in a career, and you're doing it. Congrats — I'll be watching for the announcement.
Startups are a wild ride and you're the exact right person for that flavor of chaos. Go build something worth talking about.
Congratulations on going after the thing. Not enough people do. Cheering you on the whole way.
The dream job — actually the dream job? Amazing. Congrats. I want the full story over coffee before you disappear into the deep end.
For a coworker retiring or moving out of the industry
These messages carry more weight, because they're about a chapter closing, not just a job change. Take an extra minute to write them well.
You've built more than a career here — you've built a legacy. Congratulations, and thank you for everything you gave to the people around you.
What a run. Whatever comes next — enjoy every ordinary Tuesday of it. You've earned all of them.
The place isn't going to be the same without you, and honestly, it shouldn't be. Congratulations on this beautiful next chapter.
Working with you was one of the great privileges of my career. Enjoy every second of what's next.
For a farewell card (short entries that stack well)
When you have three lines in a group card, don't waste them on generic language. Pick one specific memory, one wish, and one signoff.
You made this team funnier. You made me better at my job. Miss you already. — J
Grateful for every project we shared. Cheering loudly from over here.
You leave, we suffer, but only because you were exceptional. Go do great things.
Thank you for teaching me by example. Congratulations and please keep in touch.
Every workplace deserves a person like you. Not every workplace gets one. We were lucky.
Formal closers (for an email to a broader group)
If you're the person writing the "please join me in wishing X well" email, these are the closers that land without sounding like a template.
Please join me in wishing them the very best in this exciting next chapter. Their contributions here will be felt for a long time.
We're all better for having worked with them. On behalf of the team: thank you, congratulations, and go do great things.
Their humor, their standards, and their steadiness will be missed. Please join me in wishing them well.
For someone you're not sure about (safe but not empty)
Every workplace has a person you didn't know well but want to send off warmly. These messages are respectful without pretending you were close.
Congrats — hope the new role has everything you're looking for.
Wishing you a great start and a long, satisfying run.
Best of luck! Onwards.
Congratulations. Hope the next role is even more of what you love and less of what you don't.
A note on farewell etiquette (2026 edition)
Two small shifts have changed workplace goodbyes in the last few years. First, distributed teams mean farewells happen mostly async — a Slack thread, a Loom video, or a LinkedIn comment carries as much weight as an in-person moment. Which means written specifics matter more than they used to. "Congrats!" doesn't work in a scrolling feed. "Congrats — I'm still using that runbook you wrote in your first week" gets a reply.
Second, people notice who did and didn't say something. Not in a petty way — but the coworker leaving reads their farewell thread carefully, saves the good ones, and remembers who took the extra sixty seconds. That's the kind of small, low-cost investment that compounds. A former coworker becomes a reference, a referral, a hire, a client. The messages you write today are the goodwill you're building for the next five years.
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