Greetings,

As there is currently no way to transfer the permissions of the free company leader to other members in the event that they leave the game, or don't log in for a long time, we are working to make it possible to receive these permissions via some method. For example, if the leader has not logged in for a very long period of time, it will automatically be passed to another officer by specific rules. We will be implementing this system after patch 2.1.
Okipuit - Community Team

That's from a different thread on the forum. Copy/paste