How to remove someone from your workspace
Removing someone is on their member page, not in the list. Go to Settings → Access, click the person, and scroll to Remove from workspace.
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Open their member page
From Settings → Access, click the person you are removing.
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Press Remove from workspace
You are asked to confirm, naming the person, before anything happens.
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Confirm
They lose all access to the workspace immediately.
Two people you cannot remove here
You cannot remove yourself, and you cannot remove the workspace owner. If ownership needs to move before someone leaves, contact Pacten — owner transfer is not a self-serve action.
Before you remove them
- If they have a pending invite rather than an accepted one, revoke the invite instead — there is no member to remove yet.
- Reassign anything that routes through them, such as leave approvals for a department they lead.
- Removing a workspace member does not delete their People record. Their employment history stays where it is.
Frequently asked questions
- Who can remove someone from the workspace?
- Workspace owners and admins. An admin cannot remove another admin, and nobody can remove the owner or themselves.
- What happens to their work when I remove them?
- The work stays in the workspace. Removing a member takes away their access; it does not delete records they created.
- Can I remove the workspace owner?
- No. Ownership has to move first, and owner transfer is not self-serve — contact Pacten.
- They have not accepted their invite yet. Do I remove them?
- No — there is no member to remove. Revoke the pending invite under Settings → Access instead.
- Does removing someone delete their People record?
- No. Their employment record stays in the People app; only their access to the workspace is removed.
- Can I undo a removal?
- Not directly. Invite them again, and set their role and app access as before.