"You're going to get fired in three months."

This may sound like Paltrow and Chris Martin stuff, but it might work.

Here's a new article on "a more humane approach to firing people," and I just want to point you towards a section near the bottom:

As mentioned, employees who feel they can be blindsided by a termination at any time are chronically a bit anxious. In my experience, they respond to the persistent threat they feel by being more self-promotional and politica…