CareerBuilder did the research and came up with 10 possible reasons:

1. The person has a good relationship with someone higher up.  By relationship, we mean family, romance, friendship, etc.
2. The boss relies on the employee and is somehow more inclined to attribute the employee’s bad performance to factors outside of that employee’s control.
3. Everything taken into consideration, the employee brings more than he or she costs.
4. What if replacing that person ends up being worse?  In other words, what if management isn’t sure it can find someone better?
5. The boss is afraid of the employee.
6. The boss doesn’t want to be hurtful (has sympathy for the employee).
7. It may be easier to deal with the current employee than having to go through a hiring process, meaning screening, training, and integrating someone new.
8. The employee knows something (either about the boss or has expertise that just can’t be replaced).
9. The employee has everybody fooled.  In other words, he/ she is a good talker and always find his/ her way out of a bad situation.
10. Maybe the person is not such a bad employee after all…

Why Bad Employees Don’t Get Fired, CareerBuilder/ CNN

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