At some point in your professional career, you either have already encountered or will eventually encounter a difficult employee. An employee who doesn’t get the tasks done on time, doesn’t get along with other employees or just isn’t behaving professionally. Most leaders or managers end up spending a lot of time and emotional energy thinking about how to deal with such employees.

One of the most important characteristics of a startup founder is agility. You need to adapt to the changing entrepreneurial landscape and make decisions on the fly. One of the most significant decisions founders have to make is whether it is time to transition out of their businesses.

No matter how thorough you are with your hiring process, you can still end up with employees that are just not the right fit for your company. Be it poor performance, an inability to be a team player or an unproductive attitude, there can be a lot of reasons why you might want to let an employee go.