How to give notice?

[HoumiLoomi]

I’ve been in a job I really love for just under 6 months. It’s a small team of fab people but I’ve been offered an amazing opportunity much closer to home and 10K per year more. So I think I need to take it?

How do I give notice? I’ve never left a job I care about working with people I care about before. Another complication is my boss and her husband are based in Japan. We communicate via Skype/ email. In the UK office there are only 6 of us. With 1 person who acts as an unofficial manager (he does a different job to the rest of us on a higher pay grade but isn’t actually our manager if that makes sense). So who do I give notice to? I assume I will need to email my boss and speak to unofficial manager? I feel really sick at having to leave. I want to part on good terms but don’t know if leaving so soon will cause bad feeling.

Yes, email bosses in Japan then speak to unofficial job. Give more notice than you need to, if possible.

Just be honest - I'm sorry to give notice, I have genuinely enjoyed the role and the team, but this is an unmissable opportunity. (I'd say promotion rather than more ££, or different scope to the role etc.)

Haven't your new employers-to-be asked your current employers for a reference then?

W haven’t got as far as references I just got the offer on Friday. I imagine they will ask so I need to keep on good terms.

Personally in this setup I would book at Skype meeting with the Japan bosses and tell them face to skype face. Be prepared, tell them you love the role you are currently in, everyone has been fantastic to work with and you are very sad to leave, but family commitments (do you have children starting school soon/in school, elderly parents to care for etc?) mean the job closer to home will give you a much better work/life balance.