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How does blameless culture work with at will employment? It seems like there could be a real risk that a company's claims that they are blameless ends up being

• sokoloff 3y ago
  IMO, it works just fine. (You can object to at-will nature of employment in general, but I don’t think this makes it particularly worse.) Suppose employee E makes an error. Management decides to fire them or not. Firing someone for one error (of an accidental, non-malicious variety) makes no sense whatsoever. The set of companies who do fire for a single accidental error is vanishingly small and very likely the least desirable of employers (as they’re likely making other colossally bad decisions as well). If you’re working for a sane employer, at-will’s overlay with blameless transparency is fine. If you’re working for a terrible employer, you want to change that anyway. A sane employer could decide to act on a repeated, long-established pattern of errors, which is frankly good for the organization and the remaining employees. In that case, the transparency around “most everyone’s error rate is a couple per year, while Pat’s error rate is 4 per week for the last 3 months; it’s time to part ways with Pat” is helpful.