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If you still have access to the former owner's e-mail inbox** If you have access to the e-mail inbox of the former owner, you can simply reset his password and log in as this owner in order to assign the owner role to another user. **2. If you don't have any access to the former owner's e-mail inbox** In this case, absence.io has to assign the owner role accordingly: 1. Please send an official e-mail to [support@absence.io](mailto:support@absence.io) 2. Send it in copy (CC) to the previous owner 3. Specify who should receive the new owner role **Important notes** - If there is no other owner in the company and you would like absence.io to make the role change for you, we require an approval from your upper management. It has to be a person whose identity can be verified independently from us before we realizing the modification. - To do so, we would need to get access to your company account. 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