Share 'To Cull or Not to Cull Bottom Perfomers...'

At the Employee Factor, we thought we should ask - should you "cull or not cull" your bottom performers. “If you’ve got 16 employees, at least two are turkeys.” Jack Welch Jack Welch famously advocated firing the bottom-performing 10 per cent of staff every year. So did Steve Ballmer in April 2006, who admitted to culling one in every 15 employees every year and suggested that all businesses, l…