For one thing, in many countries it's hard to get rid of a poor employee unless they're malicious or really exceptionally terrible. For another, even if "an or

For one thing, in many countries it's hard to get rid of a poor employee unless they're malicious or really exceptionally terrible. For another, even if "an organisational problem" or inconvenient labour laws don't get in your way, firing employees can have a serious effect on the morale of those left behind. And for good reason! Usually companies that regularly fire people for poor performance has a different sort of culture than companies that don't. In my experience, that's the worse organisational problem. The right solution is just to be more careful about who you hire in the first place.