03/26/2018

The Best Way to Tell Employees When You've Fired Someone

The message isn't a haughtily delivered "they're fired"

The average tenure in the software industry is short--somewhere around 18 months. Ours is higher. Just about half the 56 people at Basecamp have been with us at least five years, and 12 have been with us for more than seven.

But people still leave. Some want to try other things at other companies, or the fit isn't right, so we have to let them go. It's the natural cycle of business.

What's never been natural at companies, though, is how these departures are handled. So, at Basecamp, we've created a ritual for when someone leaves: We tell everyone in the company why. Not just that person's team, or his or her immediate co-workers. The entire staff gets the memo.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Inc.