> Workers who lose still get to choose between severance pay or a performance-improvement plan. I'd agree, except it really doesn't doesn't cost anything to ap

> Workers who lose still get to choose between severance pay or a performance-improvement plan. I'd agree, except it really doesn't doesn't cost anything to appeal. The appeal seems more like a cultural evaluation to see if they can go to another team or not. Not so much a real chance to keep your job. Working under a manager who wanted you gone... that's a recipe for disaster anyway. Unless your manager has done something that warrants his termination, workers would be better off just finding another role in the company or finding a new job. Most terminations, in my experience, have been due to poor cultural fit... not job performance. Unless someone is grievously slacking at work, generally speaking the only time someone gets fired is when they fail to build rapport with their boss and coworkers. That being the case, a "trial" like this seems like a good way to see if the worker just has a conflict with his boss, or if he's really a pain in the ass to work with.