Annual performance reviews are wildly unpopular, not just with employees but among managers as well. They can be abused by companies looking to get rid of people for any number of reasons, rather ...

Performance reviews can make or break engagement among employees. A 2023 study has shown that 98% of employees do not engage at work if they don’t get enough feedback. Disengaged employees result in ...

The annual employee review is a time for the manager to work with the employee on a plan to develop the employee's career. It is a stressful time as the employee tries to avoid hearing too many ...

Since employee performance is central to operations and the overall health of a business, having these check-ins with staff is vital to ensuring a company ends Q1 successfully.

Data from our 2023 benchmark report shows that employees who think their performance reviews are fair and equitable are more engaged (82% vs. 60%) and productive (71% vs. 57%) than employees who ...

"Some have built them in and others have done away with them, especially as there has been a fair amount of reporting that annual performance reviews are not terribly effective and employees don ...

Opportunities for learning and relationship-building are often missed. In an ideal world, employees would learn and improve from the feedback their manager provides in the annual review.

Making performance reviews more frequent can help make them more equitable. The tech sector is the most likely to conduct reviews more often, with 52% doing so, including Google, Adobe, and Netflix.

The annual performance review is losing its luster, if it ever really had any. Large companies from Adobe to IBM to Deloitte have dropped the yearly evaluations in favor of more frequent, informal ...