Prep Talk:
How to Fire Someone
From Permanent Equity’s Ops Desk
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes
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Employment is a relationship.
Organizations live and die by the team.
We default to wanting to give the benefit of the doubt.
Firing someone is unpleasant.
Clean and final separation should be the goal.
And then there’s the aftermath.
A short and incomplete list of reasons we’ve fired someone:
And, the need to fire someone can emerge anywhere in your organization.
Tolerating and excusing bad behavior can have catastrophic consequences.
So…
