How to Manage Lazy Employees
Employees who spend more time drinking coffee, surfing the Internet, going to lunch, calling in sick and complaining about their workload are often considered lazy. Managing lazy employees can be a challenge. Sometimes the only solutions is to fire the lazy employee, but often the problem can be resolved by a little creative management.
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Document the situation. Keep accurate attendance records and monitor coffee and lunch breaks. Verify if work is going undone or if a project's completion is hindered by the lazy employee's lack of performance.
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Confront the employee. Once you have your evidence, talk with the employee and ask them about their absences or their poor work performance. Find out if there is a valid reason for what you perceive as laziness.
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Establish concrete goals and timelines for the employee's performance to improve. Check with them often to see if things are improving. They need to understand that they risk losing their job if their performance does not start to meet your expectations.
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Give the employee the tools that he or she needs to get the job done. Often, employees are not lazy, they just have inadequate supplies to do the job. Make sure computers, other equipment and office supplies are adequate to do the job. Provide additional training if necessary.
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Encourage the employee to prioritize tasks and to maintain an organized work area. Sometimes an employee is just overwhelmed with what needs to be done and they end up looking lazy.
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Meet with the employee at the end of the time period set out in your initial meeting. Discuss any progress that has been made and any areas that still need attention. Unfortunately, this may be the time to let the person go if no improvement has been seen.
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Set up times for regular performance reviews with the employee. This ensures that they will continue to excel and will not relapse into lazy habits.
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Tips & Warnings
Always meet in private with an employee to discuss their performance. Public confrontation normally just makes matters worse.
Lazy employees damage morale in the workforce. Don't delay dealing with their behavior.
In manufacturing environments, lazy employees can actually cause safety problems if they are slacking on the job.
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