The situations I can imagine involve doing what is right in the strong sense of &quot;what is right&quot; The obvious cases are when circumstances beyond normal business operations are behind the person&#x27;s leaving...knicked by a bus, serious illness, etc.<p>The less obvious circumstances would be a case where the person leaving is for the good of the company and acknowledged all around, e.g. it turns out that two good people can&#x27;t get along and so one or the other leaving increases the odds of success, and leaving quickly and cleanly is in the interest of the company.<p>In both cases, the person leaving with some ownership <i>expresses</i> the underlying trust and without their ownership, their never really was any trust.