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Many companies terminate employees as late in the day on Friday afternoons as possible. This is a mistake. The traditional logic was simply this: The dismissal should occur as late in the day as possible so that coworkers were not impacted. Friday afternoons made sense so that a ‘‘clean break’’ could be made with the workplace and,more important, so that the whole matter could be swept under the rug by keeping it out of sight.

Unfortunately, many workplace violence incidents occur on Monday mornings because distressed, terminated employees have no one to talk or appeal to. They spend the weekend brooding over the wrong that was done to them and, in a void of communication, determine to wreak havoc on the perceived wrongdoers.

Dismissal meetings that occur early in the day and early in the week, on the other hand, allow employees the opportunity to question what went wrong. They can discuss their perceptions of what led up to the termination and have their questions answered regarding unemployment insurance, reference checks, and company records.

Taken From : The Hiring and Firing Quention and Answer Book