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"rather than a score, they either get an “exceptional year”, a “great year” or an “off year”." - I wonder if that means an average year counts as an "off year"?
by logicchains 7y ago
"rather than a score, they either get an “exceptional year”, a “great year” or an “off year”." - I wonder if that means an average year counts as an "off year"?
- jakobegger 7y agoI assumed that "great" means average. If you ask someone, "How are you" and they say "Great!" it just means "Not significantly worse than usual". I also like the implication that there's nothing wrong with a couple of "great" years in a row, while a couple of "average" years in a row would at some point be pretty demotivating.
- logicchains 7y agoConsider the context. If someone asks you "how did X on your team perform", and X's performance was average, not bad but nothing special, would you use the word "great"? The last place I worked with levels like that used "met expectations" for the average, which seems more accurate, and isn't something to be ashamed of.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThat seems like a purposeful omission of the "average" level; this makes average performance fall on either "off" or "great" end, depending on essentially non-tracked, political considerations. Not an improvement, IMO, and it also feels infantilizing. So Atlassian determined their workers are not adults but little children, who can't handle knowing whether their performance was better or worse than expected and how much, so instead they get gamified with a kindergarten-named, 1.3-bit scale?