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BREAKING: 6% of workforce will be ranked in the sixth percentile. This “news” is from back in May when the new performance management system buckets were relea

• bbor 4y ago
  As a current employee: this is so, so accurate. This whole “article” and the 10 others just like it this week are just a bad rehash of the exact same article posted below, but baselessly (I.e. with no quoted source at all) ratcheting up the stakes from “Under the new system, managers have been asked to categorize 6% of employees, or roughly 10,000 people, as low performers… In the previous performance review system, managers were expected to put 2% of employees in that [low performing] bucket.” To “google is laying off 10k people lol trust us”. The first quote isn’t even correct! They added a new “moderate” bucket that covers the 2nd-6th percentiles, which I think is obviously different from expanding the very worst rating to be 3x bigger.
• kevinventullo 4y ago
  Thank you for being the only commenter in this thread with an accurate take.
  • smarmgoblin 4y ago
    Unfortunately my take is probably not the whole story. There’s likely some grain of truth to this reporting in terms of a reduction in force being planned, but nobody is sure what form or strategy will be employed.
    • kevinventullo 4y ago
      Agreed.