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I’ve written about performance reviews more times than I could possibly count, starting (I think?) with the idea of blowing them up entirely back in July 2014.
Makes sense, right? They are largely a train wreck and no one seems to enjoy going through them, on either the manager side or the employee side.
I even argued once that we should wholly eliminate performance reviews.
Some companies actually went and did that — not because of my advice, sadly — and replaced them with absolutely nothing, which I am not sure solves the problem.
What’s sad is … there is some evidence that when you kill performance reviews, you can actually develop employees faster.
(That makes sense because I’d argue there is less stress involved.)
None of this so far has brought up gender in the context of performance reviews, which is an additional train wreck, as women are more likely than not to be described as “abrasive” during their reviews, even if they’re hitting the same targets as a guy.
In reality, we should probably be focused on this idea of “career…
