Timeline for Should I explain to other team members why I fired somebody?
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| Sep 15, 2017 at 21:35 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I think one reason that should be at the top of the list is "change of business needs". Many people have contracts without any end date, and get laid of when the business doesn't need them anymore. | |
| Sep 15, 2017 at 5:58 | comment | added | Malcolm Salvador | "Who's next on the boss's list" a real threat that can plague most employees | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 12:20 | comment | added | FreeMan | @MaskedMan - yup, that's why I said generally. And yup, management shouldn't, and doesn't (US at least) tell. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 12:15 | comment | added | Masked Man | @FreeMan It is a good assumption and probably holds in majority of cases, but not the only one. A person can also "disappear" of his own accord without telling anyone for reasons like the ones mentioned in the above comment. If people want to peddle rumours, that is no longer his problem, and in any case, the manager shouldn't use that as a justification to publicly announce why the person left. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 12:00 | comment | added | FreeMan | @MaskedMan generally when an employee leaves of his own accord, he tells people about it before hand, or at least walks around the office on her last day saying good bye and giving some sort of rational sounding reason, even if it's a vague "there's a personal situation I have to take care of". If a person disappears, the assumption is he was fired. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 18:55 | comment | added | Masked Man | @sazary They have no reason to know he was fired. For all you know, he got a better job or had to move to another city for family reasons and left. I don't see an employee leaving a company as a particularly remarkable event. If people have so little trust in their manager that they believe that he will fire them for "random" reasons, I am not convinced that they will believe the manager's explanation of the firing either. There is no need to worry about rumours, rumour peddlers will always find something to talk about, a manager should be mature enough not to pour oil over the fire. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 18:47 | comment | added | sazary | actually the question is which hurts the moral most: "he got fired because of this, and it can happen to me too" or "he got fired for some unknown reason, and they may fire me for some random reason too"? and I think we should take into account rumors too | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 18:29 | history | answered | Masked Man | CC BY-SA 3.0 |