Ask HN: How to announce your team that someone got fired? Discuss! |
Ask HN: How to announce your team that someone got fired? Discuss! |
Of course, if you tell everyone you fired someone because of X, anyone else who does X will be worried. That may or may not be a good thing.
Don't make up a softer story to cushion it-- this can bite you big time. there have been companies that have been sued and lost because a manager used the "Tom left to spend more time with his family" white lie, because it masse jurors believe that Tom had been fired due to familial status (a no no).
It's good that you're thinking about how announcing team departures might affect morale, but I'd say it's a bit more important to get to the root of the issue - why are so many people getting fired?
Either you're hiring the wrong people and/or treating your staff so poorly that they simply don't care about getting fired (usually people will quit before they get fired so they don't have to explain it to future employers). Or perhaps this is some dodgy sales business where you hire a ton of people and then fire most of them that don't make impossible sales targets. I hope to god it's not the latter!
There is no perfect company (and this one is not even close) but I am thinking that there is a better way to manage all that.
You know the difference just by the way they handle it that the person left in good terms. When someone is quitting and they announce it, the morale doesn't seem to be affected.
Sometimes people won't ever quit, no matter how bad it gets. This is usually because they need the job and have no confidence in being able to obtain another job - understandable in the job market in most places today.
You appear to be stating this as a fact.
Also when the headline talked about "getting fired", most would probably differentiate that from "employee leaving", which usually implies by their own volition.