Failure
Explore the complexities involved in employee termination within engineering teams, including emotional challenges and procedural requirements. Learn why timely action and proper documentation are essential, and understand the importance of collaborating with HR to handle separations professionally and fairly.
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Terminating somebody’s employment (also often referred to as “separation from the company”) is going to raise some deeply uncomfortable feelings within you. Assuming you’ve ever been terminated from a job before, you’ll remember how it upended your life, ruined plans, brought up feelings of failure in your head, and more. Your immediate reaction is, “I can’t do that to my employee!”
To be clear, you aren’t doing anything to your employee. If anything, they are doing it to themselves, because it’s their performance, not yours. ...