I hear you. Somewhere I wonder how long this kind of sensitive questions can stay unasked. There usually are repercussions, with concrete effects on work relat

I hear you. Somewhere I wonder how long this kind of sensitive questions can stay unasked. There usually are repercussions, with concrete effects on work relationships and productivity (if there aren’t, why even bother ?). In your example, I’d guess people would delay talking to him and this would slow down communication. Keeping these kind of stuff silent usually don’t last long anyway, and it’s so much better to have early enough factual conversations, “we want you to fix X because otherwise it causes Y”, soon enough for the employee to have time left to digest the info and react on it.