This largely depends on the company. Once you have been PIPed often transfer options are limited. Personally by the time I get to the point where I am going to

This largely depends on the company. Once you have been PIPed often transfer options are limited. Personally by the time I get to the point where I am going to PIP someone I have already invested significant time and energy trying to help them through 1 on 1s, getting input from my boss, and trying to work with all tools at my disposal. If I need to get HR involved I have already made up my mind that they will no longer work for me. Once HR is involved in many ways what happens next is out of a managers hands. I view the creation of the PIP as the train leaving the station. The tracks lead to a specific outcome. All that said I suppose if things really did change I would approach what happened next with an open mind. In at least one company I worked at having PIP in your file meant that it would be impossible to switch teams ever again. What manager wants the potential liability. Also if there are is stack ranking with a curve people are going to have to be PIPed just to make the numbers work (not justifying it, just saying it happens). Having watched people be hired on to teams for the sole purpose of being let go it is really important to know what is actually going on.