Don't give salary advances to new employees. Wait until they've proven reliable over months or years, then you can help when they hit a financial emergency. Trust through performance comes first.
The reality is anytime someone asks for a salary advance, a new laptop, money to get paid before their sister, medical bills, their Internet bills, whatever it is, if it's the beginning of the relationship, if they're just starting working for you, do not prepay. Now an add on to that is there's a caveat. After someone has worked for you for a while, then yep, we prepay for work all the time. Not that we're prepaying but we give salary advances. Oh yeah, don't give a salary advance in the beginning either. We give salary advances all the time now when people are in a hard spot, they need money right now and yep, I trust you and you've been working for me for six months. You've been working me for 12 years. Yep, I'm going to give you a salary advance. Yes, I will do that. But that is after you trust someone, not before.
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