08 / OFFBOARDING GAP

The last thing nobody offboards is the business card.

The offboarding gap is the stretch between an employee leaving and every credential they held actually getting revoked. A business card is an easy one to miss, because nobody thinks of a card as an account. Here's what the research says:

88%

of paper business cards are discarded within a week of being handed out — roughly 100 billion are printed every year. (QRCodeChimp / Wave)

91%

of IT professionals say former employees still have some form of active access after they leave. (Beyond Identity)

~90%

of departed employees retain access to at least one sensitive system. (Security Magazine, 2025)

44%

of companies revoke all of a departing employee's access within 24 hours — the rest take longer. (Gartner)

59%

of organizations have experienced a data breach caused by a former employee. (Ponemon Institute)

Where Card fits

A business card is the one credential nobody thinks to revoke. On Team, one click stops the link, the QR, and the NFC chip a departing employee's card used — globally, the day they leave, not whenever someone remembers. See Teams →