Less "aggressive" synonym for "left the company"

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I am looking for a single word that you would use when someone has left a company. This can be because the person quit, they are fired, retired,...
I was thinking about Discharged but that seems like it only means fired.
I thought of other words like Out of service but that just feels like it's a machine.
Is there a single word that I can use to describe this status?

I really need it to be a single word. 
I want to use it like a kind of “stamp”
to add over the person’s profile picture in our intranet.

Mari-Lou A · Accepted Answer

Any person who leaves a company for whatever reason becomes an ex employee.
The OP can join the compound with a hyphen, i.e. ex-employee, if a single-word is absolutely necessary. Google reports thousands of instances using this form.

Mamo · Answer

I think the word "resign" is a good and more formal alternative. "Vacate" is also another formal verb with the same meaning.

He resigned from his job.

or something like

He will vacate his position next week.

JoshG · Answer

What about "Bob switched/changed companies"?

Pete · Answer

There may not be a single word for what you are asking. Terminating employment is generally so fraught with circumstances and combinations of circumstances (voluntary/involuntary, for cause/down-sizing, retiring/found a better job, personality conflict, etc.) that descriptions will either be very specific or deliberately obscure. Neither case lends itself to single words.

Answered by Pete on May 25, 2021

agc · Answer

Not at all pejorative, and suggests they've more to do:

alumnus
  plural alumni
  2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
   - a Saturday Night Live alumnus
   --M-W

Jess · Answer

You could always use "exited" (ie, they have exited the company).  It's very non-descript as to why they left and I feel not aggressive at all.

Ralph L Beaufait · Answer

I would like to suggest the word "unavailable"; it is vague enough to cover every conceivable reason for the employee not being employed there, and it fits on a stamp.

Less "aggressive" synonym for "left the company"

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