Julie Rains has an excellent quote in her article titled Dealing With Problem Employees: The Basics of Progressive Discipline.
“Given the choice to safeguard the future of your company or protect the needs of a problem employee, you’ll choose your business.”
The question is would you? Here are some reasons why you shouldn’t have to think twice about this.
Sub par performers can poison the entire office environment. The poison effect on the environment is directly related to what level the sub par performer is at. If the problem employee is at the upper levels of the company, then the employees below them are more likely to replicate the actions of the sub par performer, especially if the problem employee’s issues are not dealt with.
Problem employees also affect customer satisfaction. You may not notice it a first but you will eventually when your customers start to take their business elsewhere.
Can you really afford to keep problem employees, when customer satisfaction translates into cash flow which is the life blood of your business?
To read the entire article please clicks the following link. Dealing with problem employees the basics of progressive discipline by Julie Rains.
This article was written by Jay Kossen, CPA at Numerico, PC. Click here to view Numerico’s website.
