Redundancy & handover

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Looking for some advice here.

I'm being made redundant. My manager hasnt asked me to set up any handovers with anyone. Is this something I should feel responsible for and proactively set up or am I within my rights (moral as well as legal) to wait until my line manager decides that I need to do some handover activities?

I do want to leave this job with some of my dignity intact so I am not wanting to be awkward. However, I was engineered into this position so dont really feel obliged IYSWIM.

Legally as far as I am concerned if you are being made redundant it is because your role is no longer required (this sounds really harsh and is not meant to be, sorry.
If there are areas that you are responsible for then it is the responsibility of the management team to manage the process and personnel who remain in the company and any handover that is deemed necessary. So your position of wait until asked is correct.

Morally if you like or want to remain friends with your colleagues then you may want to help them out.

I hope this helps.

Whenever I have had to manage redundancy programmes an important part of the procedure for me has always been looking at the business implications of loosing personnel and how to manage through the process to achieve the best results. Often this is missed and the period from when someone receives their notification and leaves can be an awful and undignified time.

Hi PowderMum - thank you and not harsh at all.

I will take the 'wait until asked' postion.

You are certainly within your rights to not ask/offer. Personally I would just ask whether there's anything your boss needs you to do in terms of handing over anything to anyone else, just to be helpful. But if you're not in an especially helpful frame of mind (perfectly understandably!), you don't need to worry about it.

Hi flowery thanks for that.