Hmm, most top comments appear to construe this as some sort of anti-labor tactic. As someone who has seen them in action and actually sorta been on one, that se

Hmm, most top comments appear to construe this as some sort of anti-labor tactic. As someone who has seen them in action and actually sorta been on one, that seems super alien to me. If anything these plans are way too soft and pro-worker... 1) My own story is that in mid 20ies I was arguing a lot with teammates. I think there's some blame on both sides but most was on mine. There was one person who I think was a not very competent schemer (~confirmed later anonymously by other coworkers) who really set me off with poor technical decisions pushed thru with what I saw as dishonest ways, but overall the team was fine... being a junior developer I was willing to die on way too many hills and I wasn't nice about it either. So they put me on this thing where my coworkers would assess me anonymously, and it came out saying I am great to ok all around but my communication skills are terrible. Then they gave me a bad review and started pushing me towards some online courses and stuff to improve, and saying how it's a risk for my career etc. The job was getting boring and I didn't want to climb uphill from the bad review so after 6 months or so I just left. And I definitely saw the errors in my ways and the negative impact on the team and ~never behaved like that again on my future jobs. But my point here is... why would they do it if they were anti-me? The most logical way to deal with this situation is to fire me and forget about the whole problem. They actually ended up helping my career in other companies cause if they just fired me, instead of doing the plan song and dance, I'd probably be filled with rightful indignation instead of learning. I don't see how the whole perf plan was some sinister anti-labor move. Another 2 situations, to contrast. 2) In a big tech co, joined a new team and there was some guy doing almost no work. Like I'd walk into his office to ask a question and he was fiddling with fantasy sports. I am pretty sure he had to be on some plan... but as far as I understand (it was before me) it took at least a year for him to leave/be fired. As opposed to... 3) In a small Russian co, we hired a guy and he was not very productive. Getting ahead, similar to (2), we found when cleaning his desk later he was doing tons of puzzles at work. Anyway, I was a junior team lead with no power. After the tickets assigned to him languished one too many times, a manager asked me what's up. I said I dunno, he seems competent but very slow and I cannot get him to speed up. Manager: "well why not just fire him" me "I can do that?" manager "just say a word" me "hmm, let me talk to him, let's give him another chance" manager "ok you know what, I'm gonna fire him right now, problem solved" This is how non-FAANG "PIP" plan works :)