Anonymous wrote:You give extra notice when you are in a critical position that needs to be filled as early as possible and you have valuable knowledge that your replacement will need to know.
I have given extra notice twice and they were able to hire someone early enough so that we overlapped my last week with his first week and I was able to "train" my replacement to limit his ramp-up time during a time-critical place in the work schedule.
+1
I've seen this happen often. If you trust that your company won't show you the door as soon as you give notice, it's a good way to leave on a positive note and make a good impression (in case you need the job as a reference down the line). If you are a cog in the machine and anyone else could train your replacement, then you give two weeks.