No one
likes letting employees go.
Not exact matches
It might sound
like a rationalization, but it is quite likely that you're doing a favor to this
employee if you make that decision that you've been putting off, and
let them
go.
It is one thing when nearly every firm is
letting people
go due to a recession, but it looks
like very poor management when a firm hires during a recovery only to discover that it really did not have the workload to support additional
employees.
In this case,
employees should be made aware that they're being
let go due to performance, but that the company has chosen to technically treat the situation
like a layoff for that
employee.