PERFORMANCE REVIEWS BECOMING LESS POPULAR

Do you work at a company that has annual performance reviews? They might be going away. The traditional performance review is on, not only a downward trend, but a “deathwatch,” says Lydia Dishman at Fast​ Company business magazine. The main reason: they are an endless time suck. At the accounting firm Deloitte, they calculated their reviews took 1.8 million work hours. Software company Adobe killed annual reviews after calculating that they took 80,000 hours from 2,000 managers. To top it off, studies have shown that negative feedback didn’t improve work – and neither did positive feedback, which was found to become “misconstrued and failed to motivate.”
* Well, good. That only took 100 years to figure out.
* Performance reviews are a time suck, and with today’s snowflake workers, they also hurt their feelings.
* So from now on, you’ll just have to take it on their word why you’re not getting a raise.
* Just go back to the kindergarten system of awarding Gold Stars or Time Outs.
* Around here, the Annual Performance Review is going to be replaced by the more succinct Annual Kick in the Pants.