Hiring Replacements

Operators: How do you tackle hiring replacements for a bad actor in a critical role? Naturally, you don't want a critical seat empty for an extended period of time, so you might not want to wait until you fire them to hire someone new, especially when the recruiting time could be months. Or frame it better, you don't want to fire them until you have someone else lined up due to the long lead time to fill the seat. Great employees are typically not dying to start a new job tomorrow. Unsurprisingly, people that know they are not a good fit for the company (several warnings, improvement plans, etc.) are often job hunting as well and have alerts for roles that match their skills in said city, so they will see the job posting.