Adobe Abolished Annual Performance Review [Business Insider] - http://www.businessinsider.com/adobe-a...
Mar 16, 2015
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From the 2014 article: "When Donna Morris joined Adobe in 2002 as a senior director of global talent management, she noticed that the annual performance review, such a central part of the human resources job she had been hired to do, wasn’t much of a resource to the humans it served. 'At one point, the planning alone took nine months,' she says. 'It was like preparing to give birth to a child. It was like, "why does this take so long? Does this really drive the business return?" ' [...] So, [three] years ago, she abolished the software giant’s performance review system."
- Stephen Mack
My last performance review was a few years ago, thankfully. It is a waste of time that serves no purpose.
- Stephan Planken
I'm torn. I do see value but the process is so burdensome and time-consuming that the value is overwhelmed.
- Stephen Mack
^ so much that, Stephen.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Neither the BI piece nor the linked Businessweek piece quantify what ditching annual reviews has done for any organization, though.
- Andrew C (see frenf.it)
Andrew, it'd be interesting to see that analysis. But the main thing ditching does is save several thousand hours of labor for the company.
- Stephen Mack