5 Reasons it’s Difficult to Lay Off Sub-Standard Employees

As business owners and managers, one of the main responsibilities is staffing. Trying to find the right mix of people in terms of experience, knowledge, ambition, commitment and loyalty is a never-ending and exhausting task. It’s one of those tasks that never seems to go away, and that is precisely why those personnel changes that would greatly benefit the company or department in the long run, are avoided short-term.

Very few people actually enjoy firing or demoting employees. It is one of th...