New user - how do i change permissions from old to new user?

I've got a new employee. I need to switch all permissions of files from one employee to the new guy. Any EASY way to do this? Files/folders are in many different sharing points and folders.
Thanks!!!

A easy, but dirty, way to do this is to change your old employee's UID to something else and change your new employee's UID to the one you just replaced. If you do this as you create the new account, everything might just work out fine. It will truly transfer ownership of everything to the new user.

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