HR Low Productivity Decision Tree Calculator
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Choose the fairest next step for a low-productivity concern.
Separate unclear expectations, workplace barriers, skill gaps, accountability concerns, and protected contexts - then build a practical, documented action plan.
Your answers stay in this browser session. Do not enter names, diagnoses, complaint details, or other sensitive personal information.
Not a termination calculator. This tool recommends a management process, not a legal conclusion or employment decision. Any Yes or Unsure legal-risk signal pauses escalation for qualified HR or employment-law review.
Define the concern without judging the person.
Choose the closest answer. A reliable process uses job-related outcomes, representative facts, and fair comparisons rather than activity, personality, or a single bad day.
Evidence test: Exclude protected leave and approved breaks; account for scheduled hours, assignment complexity, ramp-up, workload, staffing, downtime, demand, quality, and safety. Monitoring or AI data needs a human accuracy and bias review.
Test whether the conditions for success are actually in place.
A fair process separates employee-controlled performance from unclear priorities, missing resources, workload, scheduling, training, and dependencies.
Do not infer intent. Until the employee is heard, describe accountability or motivation as unknown. Ask about work barriers, not diagnoses.
Pause where another process or protected right may apply.
These are routing signals, not findings. Check every item that may apply or is not yet clear. Do not enter identities, diagnoses, allegations, or complaint details.
Confidentiality: Keep medical and accommodation information separate from ordinary performance records and limit it to people with a legitimate need to know.
Match the next step to what has actually happened.
The same performance gap calls for a different response when expectations are new, coaching is working, a formal plan is active, or a reviewed plan has ended.
Improvement matters. Preserve positive evidence, do not move the goalposts, and do not keep a plan open indefinitely. A completed plan never lets this calculator choose an employment outcome.
Build one neutral, measurable improvement outcome.
This outcome appears in the employee-facing result. Keep it tied to essential work and balance quantity with quality and safety. A numeric baseline and target are required for an ordinary coaching or improvement plan; reset, conversation, sustainability, and safeguard routes can be generated without them. Entries remain in this browser only.
No universal timeline: Choose a period long enough for the work cycle, training, and promised support to affect the result. Policy, contract, and local law may require another period.
Recommended next step
Why this route
Safeguards and missing checks
Recommended action sequence
Do not do this
Conversation opener
Jurisdiction and policy check
Review the answers used
Employee-ready plan paused
This route requires review before an ordinary productivity plan is created.
Shared improvement outcome
This neutral plan keeps internal risk flags and speculative labels out of the employee conversation.
Employee commitments
Manager commitments
Shared understanding
This plan is intended to create a clear opportunity to succeed. It does not request medical details, waive any right, guarantee an outcome, or predetermine discipline. The employee may provide factual corrections and written comments.
Built from official guidance, with local review still required.
The official sources support clear standards, factual and consistent evaluation, accommodation and leave routing, anti-retaliation checks, employee voice, progressive improvement, and human review. They do not make this calculator a legal opinion.
Important: Laws, contracts, collective agreements, public-sector rules, and company policies vary. This tool does not determine cause, eligibility, disability, protected activity, misconduct, discipline, just cause, reasonable notice, or termination. Do not enter sensitive details. Consult qualified HR or employment counsel before adverse action.
Disclaimer: This decision tree tool provides management-process guidance and process-readiness evaluations only; it does not offer legal advice, determine legal conclusions, or establish just cause or termination grounds. Management should consult qualified HR professionals or legal counsel to review jurisdiction-specific laws, collective agreements, and employment contracts before taking any formal or adverse employment actions.
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