I’ve received different opinions on this topic so I’ve come to Reddit…I’m a CEO and unfortunately I need to fire my first employee who has been at the company for two years. He is consistently underperforming despite lots of coaching. He is aware of all of the issues and this will not come as a surprise as it’s worsened in the last month. The tough part is that my second employee, who is in a senior position relative to the first employee, just joined six weeks ago. Do I let him in to what’s going on with the first employee? Or tell him what happened as soon as I have officially let the first employee go? Trying to balance respecting the first employee vs. maintaining trust/decreasing fear with the second employee.