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Just as there is bias in hiring, there can be bias in firing. Effective leaders recognize this and put systems in place to minimize them. Being attentive to th
by gammarator 4y ago
Just as there is bias in hiring, there can be bias in firing. Effective leaders recognize this and put systems in place to minimize them. Being attentive to those dynamics is especially important in times of stressful decisionmaking, when it’s tempting to take cognitive shortcuts.
Claiming it means “only fire white people” is not accurate.
- treis 4y agoBut the devil is in the details. My skip level manager had a goal something to the effect of equal or lower female attrition. A female engineer left for a better job at Facebook. Not too long after I was on a PIP and while I can't prove they were directly related it didn't exactly leave me a warm and fuzzy feeling. At minimum the bullshit of a PIP I was on would have been looked at a lot more critically if I were female since that would have made the scoreboard 0-2 instead of 1-1.