I disagree. Firing via email or pre-recorded voicemail saves YOU the embarrassment of having to sit through the employees sobs. In my opinion, firing is a failure of management, and one of the consequences and fixes to ensure a failure like that doesn't occur again is to witness the very real fall out the error has on real people; that is your failure was so grand as to have a grown man in tears.
Firing via email or pre-recorded message is a way to avoid looking your failure of responsibility in the eye
Firing via email or pre-recorded message is a way to avoid looking your failure of responsibility in the eye