I found out a new employee is tapping fellow employees to look for job elsewhere [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I got a new HR who has stayed for less than 3 href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/months">months, I recently discovered he is telling my other href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/employees">employees to find job elsewhere. He infact is helping them href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/update">update their Resumes and submitting to other companies as well.

What action should I take?

manpreet 2 years ago

My first thought when I read your question was: "How good is this charlatan that he can convince his coworkers to take his advice after only three months?" Then I thought "How terrible must this job be, that his coworkers actually took his advice, at risk of losing their employment?"

People usually don't start looking for new jobs until the job they have is so terrible that they can't bear to plan their future around it, or they sense that their job is about to leave them (ie the company collapses, or lays off that department). But if employees can find any excuse to be loyal, they will take it - just look at all questions on here that are along the lines of "Through no fault of mine, my boss screwed me over completely, the company profits are in the negative, and I'm totally demoralized. . . . how can I save my job?"

I personally have been on the other side of your situation: the manager I was working for had become so cranky and unprofessional, and our salaries were so tiny, that a group of three people formed to help each other find other employment (not on paid time, of course).

I've also been in situations where I've offered to help former coworkers find new work because I thought their positions were terrible for them - and gotten rejected because, even though they knew it wasn't the best situation for them, they were just happy enough where they were.

If your employee is using company time/resources to do things unrelated to his job, then yes, you have a very good reason to fire him.

But if you've been keeping employees on for several years for no raises or chances for advancement, or telling them for a long time that you don't expect them to stay on and make a career at your company, or that they don't bring a lot of value to team, then you've been adding kindle to this fire all along, and continuing to do so will result in a bad reputation for your company.

All of this goes out the window, of course, if you can prove that there was some malicious intent behind him seeking employment with you in the first place, such as he was hired by another company specifically to sabotage your team - then you should call a lawyer.

And a final hypothesis - he might see the employees he's helping as 'dead weight' and is trying to do you (and himself) a favor by getting them off the payroll.