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Farewell messages for coworkers and leaving cards

Pick who the card is for, type the names, and copy a farewell message that sounds like you wrote it. All 208 are listed below, in three tones.

Their name,

You made the hard weeks shorter and the long meetings bearable. The new team has no idea how lucky they are.

Your name

Tone: Heartfelt

Farewell messages for a coworker

Heartfelt farewell messages for a coworker

  1. You made the hard weeks shorter and the long meetings bearable. The new team has no idea how lucky they are.
  2. Thank you for every time you answered a question I was embarrassed to ask. I'll have to start reading the wiki now.
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  1. Working next to you was the best part of the job, and that includes the free coffee.
  2. You were the person everyone went to when something broke. I hope the new place works that out by Friday.
  3. I learned more from watching you handle clients than from any training module. Good luck, and stay in touch.
  4. You always made time, even in the busy months. That's rarer than you think. Go and be brilliant somewhere new.
  5. Thanks for the advice, the cover on my days off and the honest feedback. The next team is getting a good one.
  6. You made a new starter feel at home on day one. That new starter was me, and I haven't forgotten.
  7. Every project you touched went a little better. Good luck with the next one, and the one after that.
  8. It was a pleasure to share a desk, a deadline and too many late lunches with you. All the best.
  9. You set the bar for how to treat people at work. I'll keep using it after you've gone.
  10. Losing you is bad news for us and great news for whoever hired you. Congratulations on the new role.
  11. Thank you for being the calm one in every fire drill, real or otherwise. Keep in touch.
  12. The team will keep your desk tidy, but it won't be the same. Thank you for everything.

Funny farewell messages for a coworker

  1. Congratulations on escaping. Please send directions to the tunnel.
  2. Who's going to unjam the printer now. I'm leaving it to whoever stands nearest and walks slowest.
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  1. I'm keeping your stapler. Consider it my severance.
  2. Your new company doesn't know it yet, but its fridge is about to get very organized.
  3. You were the only person who read the whole email. Now we'll have to start replying to things.
  4. Enjoy the new job. If they ask why you left, say it was the coffee, not the people.
  5. I'd say we'll miss you, but you're still in four group chats and the shared calendar.
  6. We're splitting your work five ways. That's how we found out you were doing the work of five.
  7. Remember us when you're having lunch at a reasonable hour.
  8. You leave with our best wishes and one mug from the third floor that you never gave back. We know.
  9. Your out-of-office can finally be honest: gone, not coming back, try someone else.
  10. Wishing you a new job with fewer meetings, shorter emails and a microwave with no line.
  11. Thanks for years of covering when my camera was broken. Your secret is safe if mine is.
  12. I hope the new place has a better chair than the one you took from meeting room 4.
  13. Leaving just before the reorg. Some people have all the luck.
  14. Leaving two weeks before the holiday party is a bold move. Respect.
  15. You were the reason I came in on office days. You and the free bagels.
  16. Good luck in the new role. Please leave us out of your LinkedIn post about growth.

Short farewell messages for a coworker

  1. You'll be missed. Good luck.
  2. Thanks for everything. Keep in touch.
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  1. Best of luck in the new job.
  2. It won't be the same without you.
  3. Go and show them how it's done.
  4. Congratulations, and thank you.
  5. The desk next to mine is going to be very quiet.
  6. Good luck. You've earned this one.
  7. Thanks for making work better.
  8. All the best, and see you around.
  9. Lucky them. Unlucky us.
  10. Don't be a stranger.

Farewell messages for a boss

Heartfelt farewell messages for a boss

  1. Thank you for backing me in rooms I wasn't in. I found out later, and it meant a lot.
  2. You were the manager people move teams to work for. The rest of us just got lucky.
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  1. Thanks for the clear goals, the honest feedback and the one-to-ones you never cancelled.
  2. You trusted us to do the work and stepped in when it got hard. That's the whole job, done well.
  3. Thank you for every time you took the blame and passed on the credit.
  4. You made a busy team feel like a good one. Your next team is very lucky.
  5. Thanks for pushing me toward things I'd have talked myself out of. I owe you a few.
  6. You always told us why we were doing something. I'll miss that most.
  7. I'll take a lot from working for you, including how to turn down a meeting politely.
  8. Good luck in the new role. Whoever sits in your chair has a high bar to clear.

Funny farewell messages for a boss

  1. Good luck. We'll try to make decisions without a meeting about the meeting.
  2. Thank you for approving my leave without asking what I was doing. Very modern.
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  1. We've agreed to keep your door open. Nobody will walk through it, but it'll be open.
  2. Wishing you a new team that reads the agenda. We never did, and you never said a word.
  3. Your calendar will miss you more than we will, and we'll miss you a lot.
  4. Thanks for every quick sync. At least half of them were quick.
  5. Who's going to tell us the reorg is an exciting opportunity now.
  6. You were the best boss I've had, and I once had a boss who cc'd his own boss on everything.
  7. We promise to keep using the template you made. Nobody knows how to change it anyway.
  8. Thanks for the pizza parties. I hear the next manager is more of a salad person.
  9. We'll keep the one-to-ones going, mostly with ourselves, by the coffee machine.
  10. Good luck with the new job. Please leave the password to the team budget under the keyboard.

Short farewell messages for a boss

  1. Thank you for being a great boss.
  2. You made this a good place to work.
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  1. Thanks for always having our backs.
  2. The best manager I've had. Good luck.
  3. Thanks for the trust. It showed.
  4. You'll be hard to replace.
  5. Good luck. They're lucky to have you.
  6. Thank you for everything you did for this team.

Leaving card messages for someone you barely know

Heartfelt leaving card messages for someone you barely know

  1. We didn't work together much, but everyone I asked said you were great to work with. Good luck.
  2. I only knew you from the stand-up, and you always kept it short. That's a rare gift. All the best.
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  1. We never shared a project, but you always said good morning by the elevator. Good luck in the new job.
  2. I hear the team will be lost without you. Wishing you every success in what comes next.
  3. Our paths didn't cross enough, which is my loss. Best of luck with the move.
  4. Everyone keeps saying how much they'll miss you, which tells me plenty. Good luck.
  5. Sorry we didn't get to work together more. The new team is lucky to have you.
  6. Wishing you a great start somewhere new. The kitchen will feel quieter without you.

Funny leaving card messages for someone you barely know

  1. I've been told you're lovely. I believe it. Good luck.
  2. We've only met at the coffee machine, but you always let me go first. Good luck out there.
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  1. This card was going round, so I'm signing it, and I mean the good wishes anyway.
  2. Good luck with the new job. I'll miss seeing your name on invites I didn't accept.
  3. We never spoke, but you had the best desk plant on the floor. Please take it with you.
  4. I know you from one all-hands question that everyone else was thinking. Respect, and good luck.
  5. We've traded eleven emails and two nods. Both nods were excellent. All the best.
  6. I'm told you're the reason the shared drive has folders. Thank you, and good luck.
  7. This card reached me with no room left, so here is my best wish in small writing: good luck.
  8. Two years on the same calls with our cameras off. Lovely to almost meet you.
  9. Your name was on the card, so you must be good. Enjoy the next job.
  10. I didn't know you were leaving until the cake arrived. Thank you for the cake.

Short leaving card messages for someone you barely know

  1. Good luck in the new job.
  2. All the best for what comes next.
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  1. Wishing you every success.
  2. Best wishes from the third floor.
  3. Good luck, and enjoy the new place.
  4. Sorry to see you go. All the best.
  5. Have a brilliant time at the new place.
  6. Good luck from one of the camera-off squares.
  7. Congratulations on the move.
  8. Hope the new job is a great one.

Retirement messages for a coworker

Heartfelt retirement messages for a coworker

  1. Congratulations on a career that set the standard for the rest of us. Enjoy every slow morning.
  2. Thank you for all the years of knowing how things work and why. We'll be lost for a while.
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  1. You taught half this team how to do the job. Now go and enjoy not doing it.
  2. Happy retirement. You've earned every lie-in and every email you'll never answer.
  3. Wishing you long walks, long lunches and no alarm clock ever again.
  4. Thanks for the decades of patience, the history lessons and the best stories at every party.
  5. Nothing here will run the same without you, and we'll keep blaming the old system for it.
  6. Congratulations. May every Monday from now on feel like a Saturday.
  7. You've seen this company through more reorgs than anyone. Enjoy the quiet.
  8. Thank you for your kindness to every new starter, me included. Happy retirement.
  9. Whatever you do next, do it slowly and on your own schedule.
  10. Happy retirement. We'll raise a mug of terrible office coffee to you every morning.

Funny retirement messages for a coworker

  1. Congratulations on your permanent out-of-office.
  2. No more meetings, no more deadlines, no more reply-all. You'll be bored by Wednesday.
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  1. Enjoy retirement. Your new boss is you, and I hear they're very relaxed.
  2. You can finally read the book you've been pretending to read on your lunch break.
  3. Now you can give everyone your honest opinion of the open-plan office.
  4. Retirement: every day is Saturday, except Sunday, which is also Saturday.
  5. You're the first person ever to clear their whole to-do list by leaving it on the desk.
  6. Congratulations. Your new commute is from the bed to the kettle.
  7. Please don't spend your first week asking how the project is going. It isn't.
  8. Enjoy the pension. We'll enjoy telling new starters you built the spreadsheet nobody understands.
  9. Remember us when you're at the garden center at 11 am on a Tuesday.
  10. Happy retirement. You never have to write "per my last email" again.
  11. Retiring from work is easy. Retiring from the group chat is impossible.
  12. Retirement is a full-time job, they say. At least this one has no performance review.
  13. Go and do everything you said you'd do once things calm down. Things never calmed down.
  14. Your inbox will not be missed, and neither will the 8 am calls.

Short retirement messages for a coworker

  1. Happy retirement. Enjoy every minute.
  2. You earned this. Congratulations.
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  1. Enjoy the lie-ins.
  2. Happy retirement, and thank you.
  3. No more alarms. Enjoy it.
  4. Now the fun part starts.
  5. Congratulations on a brilliant career.
  6. Happy retirement. Keep in touch.

Work anniversary messages

Heartfelt work anniversary messages

  1. Happy work anniversary. Thank you for another year of making the hard parts look easy.
  2. One more year of you on the team, and the team is better for it. Happy anniversary.
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  1. Five years, and you still help every new starter find the right meeting room. Thank you.
  2. Happy anniversary. Your work this year moved the whole team forward.
  3. Thanks for a year of good ideas, honest feedback and showing up for people.
  4. It's been a pleasure working with you this year. Here's to the next one.
  5. Another year, another set of projects you made better. Congratulations.
  6. Happy work anniversary. The team runs smoother because you're in it.
  7. A year ago you were new here. Now people ask you where things are. Congratulations.
  8. Ten years of good work and good humor. Thank you for both.
  9. Happy anniversary. We'd be lost without your notes from every meeting.
  10. Congratulations on the milestone. You make this a better place to work.

Funny work anniversary messages

  1. Happy work anniversary. Your badge photo is now officially a historical document.
  2. One year in. You now know which meeting rooms have a working screen. That's senior knowledge.
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  1. Happy anniversary. This is the part where you get a card instead of a raise.
  2. Another year done. The company would like to thank you with this card and the same chair.
  3. Congratulations on staying. The exit interview team is disappointed.
  4. Happy anniversary. You've now sat through enough all-hands to give one.
  5. Five years. You've outlasted three reorgs, two logos and one office plant.
  6. Happy work anniversary. LinkedIn is about to tell everyone, so we got in first.
  7. Celebrating a year of you saying "you're on mute" with real patience.
  8. Happy anniversary. Your inbox is a year older too, and it looks it.
  9. Another year of agreeing the coffee is fine. Congratulations.
  10. Ten years. You're the only one who remembers why that folder is called Final_v2.
  11. One year down. You've earned the right to complain about the new starters.
  12. Happy work anniversary. We got you a card, a cupcake and a meeting about next year.
  13. A year ago you joined. Today you know the Wi-Fi password by heart. Real progress.
  14. Happy anniversary. The vending machine has been here a year too, and it has never been this helpful.

Short work anniversary messages

  1. Happy work anniversary.
  2. Here's to another great year.
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  1. Thanks for a brilliant year.
  2. Congratulations on the milestone.
  3. One year down. Glad you're here.
  4. Happy anniversary, and thank you.
  5. Five years. What a run.
  6. Cheers to the next year.
  7. Glad you picked us.
  8. The team is better with you in it.

Goodbye messages for your own last day

Heartfelt goodbye messages for your own last day

  1. Today is my last day. Thank you for the help, the patience and the laughs along the way.
  2. It's been a privilege to work with you all. I'll miss the people far more than the work.
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  1. I'm leaving with a lot of good memories and a better idea of how to do this job. Thank you.
  2. Thank you for making me feel welcome from my first day to this one.
  3. I've learned something from every one of you. My personal email is below, so please keep in touch.
  4. Leaving a team this good is the hardest part of taking a new job. Thank you all.
  5. Thanks for every piece of advice, every covered shift and every coffee run.
  6. I'm proud of what we built together. Thank you for letting me be part of it.
  7. You made coming to work easy. That's the best thing I can say about a job.
  8. I won't remember every project, but I'll remember who I worked on them with.

Funny goodbye messages for your own last day

  1. After four years, I've finally found a way to get out of the Monday meeting.
  2. Today is my last day. My out-of-office is on, and for once it's telling the truth.
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  1. I'm leaving the stapler to the team. Please share it fairly.
  2. Thank you for the memories, the support and the 412 meeting invites.
  3. My last day. From Monday I'll be at the new job, pretending I know where the bathrooms are.
  4. Farewell. My notes are on the shared drive, in a folder nobody will open.
  5. I'm off. The plant on my desk is now everyone's responsibility, which means it's no one's.
  6. Today I hand in my badge, my laptop and my honest opinion of the coffee.
  7. Please don't take my leaving personally. Take the leftover cake instead.
  8. Goodbye, team. I'll miss you, the chats and the printer that only works for the intern.
  9. My last day. I've cleared my inbox using the only method that works.
  10. Leaving now. Please remove me from the reply-all chain, and from the next forty.

Short goodbye messages for your own last day

  1. Today is my last day. Thank you, all of you.
  2. Thanks for everything. Stay in touch.
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  1. It's been a pleasure. Goodbye for now.
  2. Signing off for the last time. Thank you.
  3. Thanks for having me.
  4. I'll miss you all. Let's keep in touch.
  5. Off to the next thing. Thank you.
  6. My last day. Grateful for every one of you.

How to write a leaving card message

What goes in a leaving card

A leaving card message has four parts, and two sentences hold all of them. Their name, one specific thing they did, a wish for what comes next, and your name where they can read it.

Specific beats long. “Thanks for every save in the client calls” says more than a paragraph about how great they are, because only one person made those saves. If nothing specific comes to mind, thank them for something the whole team got from them, such as the notes from every meeting.

When you barely know them

Most people who sign a leaving card worked with the leaver once, or never. Write something small and true: their updates were short, they always held the elevator, people speak well of them. Add your team after your name so they can place you.

Skip inside jokes you weren’t part of. A card full of strangers’ good wishes is still a nice thing to take home.

Funny or heartfelt

Funny works when the two of you already joke at work, and it lands best on the job itself: the printer, the meetings, the coffee. Never joke about why they’re leaving, the company they’re going to, or anyone who was let go. When in doubt, write a heartfelt line and let the card’s front do the joking.

For the leaving drinks, a printed office award with their name on it gets a laugh, and unlike the cake it goes home with them. Their last afternoon is also the traditional slot for a harmless office prank, as long as it comes off before they hand in the badge.

Bosses, retirement and work anniversaries

A boss who’s leaving

Thank them for something they did for you in particular: the one-to-ones they kept, the leave they signed off without questions, the meeting they took so you didn’t have to. Keep it about the work.

If there’s a collection, give what you’d give anyone, or sign and give nothing. 55% of US hiring managers say staff feel compelled to buy gifts for managers and supervisors, and 46% of job seekers feel pushed to spend a set amount. A signed card is enough.

Retirement messages

A retirement card covers a whole career, so thank them for what they taught people and wish them something specific: slow mornings, the trip they keep mentioning, no alarm clock. Jokes about the pension, the garden center and the group chat are fair. Jokes about age are not.

If they’re counting the days, the retirement countdown does it to the minute.

Work anniversary messages

Half of US workers have been with their employer 4.1 years or less, and 20.6% have been there a year or under. A fifth or tenth anniversary is rarer than it feels, and worth a card. Half of hiring managers say their company marks work anniversaries, which leaves the other half to whoever remembers.

Name the number of years and thank them for one thing from this year. A cupcake helps. A meeting about next year’s goals, booked for the same afternoon, does not.

Your own goodbye email

What to put in it

Send it on your last afternoon, the end of your notice period, after your manager and team have heard it from you first. Four things do it: your last day, thanks, who looks after your work from tomorrow, and a personal email if you want to keep in touch. Leave out why you’re going.

Set an out of office message that names the same contact, and pick an email sign-off that suits a last email: warm, plain, and not “per my last email”.

All the best is the natural close, good luck and goodbye in three words.

Who to send it to

Your team and the people you worked with most, by name. For a long list, put everyone in bcc, so nobody can reply to all.

3.1 million Americans quit a job in August 2026 alone. Short goodbye emails get read.

Questions about farewell and leaving card messages

What is the best farewell message to a coworker?

One that names something only they did: the client they calmed down, the printer they fixed, the question they always answered. Add thanks and a wish for the new job, then sign it. Two sentences beat a paragraph.

How do I say goodbye to a coworker who is leaving?

Say it in person or on a call before their last day, then sign the card. Thank them for one specific thing, wish them luck, and offer a way to stay in touch only if you mean it.

How do I write a short farewell message?

Use the shape "thanks for this, good luck with that" and stop. "Thanks for fixing the Monday report every week. Good luck at the new place." is short and still personal.

What do you write in a leaving card for someone you don't know?

Something small and true, such as a kind word you've heard about them or a habit you noticed from across the floor. Then a plain good luck, signed with your team's name as well as yours.

What do you say on someone's work anniversary?

Congratulate them on the number, then thank them for one thing they did this year. "Three years in, and still the first to answer in the team channel" works on a card or in the channel itself.

What can I say instead of happy work anniversary?

"Congratulations on five years", "Thanks for another great year" or "Glad you picked us" say the same thing and sound less like a greeting card. The year count is what makes it personal.

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