India, July 20 -- A Mumbai-based startup founder is being praised online after revealing how he responded when an employee's performance declined.

In a LinkedIn post, Dhruv Mukherjee, founder of Blue Lobster Media, shared that an employee had a "bad month" and asked him to dock her pay. But instead of cutting her salary, Mukherjee said that he sent her on a fully paid 3-day getaway and arranged a dedicated workspace to help her get back on track.

"My employee had a bad month, and asked me to dock her pay. I sent her on a paid getaway instead," he wrote.

In the post, Mukherjee recalled that he noticed persistent issues in the company's content pipeline over the course of a month. According to him, post approvals were becoming last-minut...