When an employee leaves, I know you must have your offboarding procedures: take their security card, give them a COBRA application, perhaps conduct an exit interview. But somewhere in those procedures, I beg of you to remind them to take their 401(k)s with them.
New research from Charles Schwab shows 43% of assets held by 401(k) participants who left their jobs in the first quarter of 2008 had not been moved a year later.