my new employee fell asleep in a meeting

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager .
A reader writes:
I have a new employee who started this week. So far she seems great. But we were just in a kind of boring but important meeting with internal colleagues and she kept nodding off to sleep. She was trying to fight it, but it happened multiple times.
Is this something I should address with her now? Keep an eye on? Something else?
I answer this question — and three others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here .
Other questions I’m answering there today include:

I’ve been asked to give a reference for two people for the same job
I’m fed up with an excessive interview process
Would this networking move be creepy or useful?

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