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Plenty of examples where only low performers are targeted. Salesforce asked some managers to rank their lowest 10% of employees https://www.businessinsider.com
by achow 4y ago
Plenty of examples where only low performers are targeted.
Salesforce asked some managers to rank their lowest 10% of employees https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-rank-employees-more-layoffs-marc-benioff-2022-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-rank-employees-mo...
Amazon recently instructed managers to identify low performers to push out https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-managers-told-identify-low-performers-stack-ranking-rank-2022-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-managers-told...
- naruhodo 4y agoSounds like a great way to settle old scores while appearing "impartial".
- swagasaurus-rex 4y ago“Which of your subordinates do you like least?”
- black_13 4y ago[dead]
- FrontierPsych 4y agoRight, the Jack Welch (General Electric) school of management. This is a strategy best done as a regular ongoing culling of the "worst" employees. This way, you are always a better workforce. When you have a mass layoff due to massively missing revenue goals, you have to start wholesale hacking of people to get rid of payroll. Payroll is the biggest cost to a company, so you have to shed employees fast, before the end of this quarter. There is no time to fire that many people at once, even with delegation. You have to chop all the non-performing or underperforming units/product lines/etc and everyone in them, be they the bottom 10% of the top 10%. If you have 750 people working in a product line that is losing money, they're zapped.