Forward Terminated Employee Emails Best Practice

I'll start off by saying Exchange is not my bread and butter, but it is mine now, so this is my logical thought...
When we have an employee leave and their email needs to be forwarded to a manager or another employee, the current process is to disable/delete their account and add their SMTP address to the person who would now receive their emails. Is this the most logical
way to accomplish this? To me it seems like the quickest way, but doesn't allow much flexibility or logic. All actionable rules would need to take place in Outlook of the new receiver, like auto-response, rejection, etc.
I don't know how rampant the SMTP process is through the environment but I can find out via Powershell, I'm sure.
But lets say it happens on a lot of mailboxes...If I create a Transport Rule for each of these instances will the TR's create a lot of extra overhead on the servers having to process the rules? How do others handle this type of task, it has to be pretty
common. 

While that will work, you can also put a forwarding address on the terminated mailbox.  On the
Mail Flow Settings tab, get the properties of the Delivery Options. Add a forwarding address, and if you want rules in the original mailbox to handle auto-responses, etc, select the
Deliver message to both forwarding address and mailbox tickbox. You can also do this in the shell with the following command:
Set-Mailbox -Identity <mailbox ID> -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $true -ForwardingAddress <forwarding address>
The advantage of this is that when the account is finally deleted, there is no cleanup required.
And you do NOT want to use Transport Rules, as you surmise. (-;

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