Google’s changing its performance reviews to waste less time
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YXST)
The number of annual reviews is being cut in half. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is hoping to make its performance reviews less of a burden to employees by making it so they only happen once a year instead of twice a year, requiring less paperwork, and changing the way employees are rated. According to a report from The Information, 47 percent of Google employees didn't think that their time was well spent with the previous performance review system.
It's often hard to point to how internal changes can affect end users, but Google, as a company, has a reputation for either pulling the plug on products or letting them wither without getting proper attention. At some point, though, actual humans had to work on those projects - it's always possible that if employees can focus on their actual jobs instead of...