>especially in performance-review-obsessed cultures. I can't wait for performance reviews to just die. I'm middle-management at my institution, and I see my jo

>especially in performance-review-obsessed cultures. I can't wait for performance reviews to just die. I'm middle-management at my institution, and I see my job as making sure my teams have what they need and are insulated from the bullshit enough to get done what they need to get done, how they see best to do it. And then performance reviews happen. I can't do their jobs. I don't want to do their jobs. That's the reason I hire them instead of doing it myself. How can I tell them they're not doing a good job or what to improve on? Their metrics are met, their clients are being appropriately serviced. WHY??? Because we need a way to quantify human performance when we have to downsize. That's why. It's dark, but I'm convinced that's what is at the root of corporate performance reviews across the US.