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What is PIP?

• carry_bit 3y ago
  Performance Improvement Program
• Jalad 3y ago
  Tongue in cheek: paid interviewing period
• kasey_junk 3y ago
  Performance improvement plan (or program). Typically the first step in a process to fire an employee for cause. It documents that as an employer|manager you've outlined a problem and created a plan that would allow the employee to meet expectations in the future. Generally speaking, it should be a hint that its time to find a new job.
• zerocrates 3y ago
  As another comment says, it's "performance improvement plan": saying to the employee that they're not meeting expectations and they need to hit a set of goals or be fired. It's part of the documentation process used by companies to protect against liability: if they're going to fire you they want a paper trail of a nondiscriminatory reason why they did it. The "rosier" theoretical side is that a PIP is a wake-up call to a struggling employee that gives them a chance to improve. Here the claim is that the manager was forced to put X number of people on PIP regardless, which would be under something like a stack ranking system where a manager isn't allowed to say all their employees are performing adequately, they have to choose some to put on the chopping block. Amazon is famous for doing this.