Project Management

anyone else ever get handed a project just to be a data entry point? Data entry can be looking at an invoice, a balance sheet, and copying specific information to share a project. but, what happens when that person who created the medium you enter data into quits or retires? Im seeing this happen more often in my company. The employee leaves and the distribution of duties goes unchecked. In fact many managers don't even know what tasks someone does or how to train in those duties, how those duties impact other departments, and now you have dysfunction, pay gaps, unhappiness, and chaos. To a reasonable person, the burden of a replacement being expected to know every in and out task just within two weeks at a new employer. Seems stressful. How are many of you preparing for this? I've been told to outline everything but when and how often are some of you meeting with employees to make sure an SOP is up to date, or how are tasks being documented in an efficient way? Any guidelines or templates people use or would like to share? Thank you to all!