I recently started to lead a small support team. 10+ members .In my team all the 9 members are able to catch the things normally and understand the role correctly. 1 guy is really innocent and from mechanical background is struggling to understand basic things like cp command and mv commands in Linux. he's just doing what command is given to him with no understanding of what he is doing .I'm in a place to release him from the project.but he is trying for group 1 exams and missed cut off by 1 mark. if I take a decision to release him which can lead to miss the income to his family( he's not so good in English struggling to speak). he will work flexibly without complaining . for ex I can call anytime he will respond and he s willing to do even at 1 am. others in the project are lazy and little smart enough and family front he is having three elder sister.whatever I still can cover him for another three months to give opportunity to him . but manager is asking me to release few folks to reduce the cost. on the same note, we have one stupid tech arch with hell lot of ego on him. he don't work properly or he won't complete anything. he work on certain times and created lot of pressure on us to keep the business running. we have recovered the damage by Sr.tech arch and nuisances. management is supporting him for xyz reasons. architect is having higher salary , onsite etc etc.. but this guy is earning 24k approx.. somehow the architect climbed up the ladder. seriously with his design and approach we have lost good alerting mechanism. he will shout at anybody for his ego. Now pls help me to take a decision here. what should I do now

I have seen that if the company has the option to work from home or flexibility around work hours then most people end up abusing it. It is really true for men. I have noticed in my team that the women can still use the flexibility to manage home/kids and still do the required work. But they guys totally exploit the system. What is it about guys that they can't work properly unless they are being monitored in office?