For example, if it is your grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party and you planned to go home for a two-week visit, just go to the anniversary festivities and plan to return to visit the family at another time. Let s explore your options. If you give a shorter notice, you are doing a disservice to yourself and your firm. You might even be burning a bridge that will return to haunt you in the future. It is standard operating procedure to give two weeks notice.
Some people prefer to give even more, depending on their circumstances.
For instance, if you are a litigator and in the middle of a trial, you would want to extend your notice to allow you to stay with the firm until the end of the trial. If that is the case, it is not unheard of to give three to four weeks notice and, occasionally, even more. But never, never, never any less than two weeks. As with everything else, there are always exceptions to the rule. For example, if your firm had asked you to start looking for a new job, they might very well be happy to deviate from the norm and allow you to give less than two weeks notice.