alt Hacker NewsNo, say you're on a team of five with two consistently poor performers that not only fail to achieve limited tasks, but constantly draw off support from the rest of the team.
There's no technical fix for that. The nuclear option of getting them sacked and replaced dents team morale and probably wouldn't let the team back up to speed for three or four months with all the onboarding required.
Coaching in areas where they should be self-learning consumes the focus of others on the team or in the business.
Ignoring them and ploughing ahead without assigning them work drastically reduces team effectiveness.
Not much in the way of a technical fix in sight - unless copilot suddenly becomes really really good.
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Putting them on gardening leave is a technical fix to that.
IDK about coaching. If you've ever been seriously coached for performance (think sports) an effective coach will look you dead in the eye and tell you you're terrible. At work, in technical fields, everyone likes to be liked and shy's away from being a bastard to their peers and reports. Especially if the conditions aren't that great and killing yourself for your current gig isn't giving you windfall returns.
Giving people the tools to succeed or at least being clear to them that they and need to do better is a managers job.