Introduction
Explore the complexities of employee termination within engineering teams, understanding the differences between immediate dismissal for serious misconduct and performance-based separations. Learn appropriate steps to follow, including involving HR and handling layoffs, to manage terminations professionally and ethically.
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With a sense of dread permeating her soul, Greeshma fired up the dashboard to look over Joshua’s work. She’d been hopeful that the performance-improvement plan she and Morgan had established for Joshua would give him some solid guidelines on how to improve, but… looking at the numbers and the code commits from the rest of the team, it clearly wasn’t taking root. His work continued to be shoddy, and the two-month period of the PIP was over.
Being terminated from your job is one of the worst feelings ever. Perhaps the only thing worse than that feeling is being the one doing the terminating.
When we step back and examine most ...