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> Any ranking system where an individual's outcome depends on their number of colleagues is bafflingly broken. From the perspective of the company, it's not as
by duaneb 13y ago
> Any ranking system where an individual's outcome depends on their number of colleagues is bafflingly broken.
From the perspective of the company, it's not as clear how this approach is broken. Assumably promotions, hirings, and firings should be based on the current needs of the company, not what's fair to the employees or some ideological vision. I'm pretty sure attempting to apply any one method for evaluating so many different employees in so many different roles will fail in some manner.
- tolmasky 13y agoThe critique is not in relation to fairness to employees but rather the reality that there doesn't always have to be such a distribution of performance. Sometimes most people are excelling, similarly, sometimes you may need to fire FIFTY percent of the workforce. You should judge people on a measurement that's not purely comparative to other employees. If every single employee steals from the company, that doesn't mean that the one who stole the least amount of things is "exceptional".
- cwp 13y agoThe problem with stack ranking isn't that it's unfair to individual employees, it's that it inhibits cooperation. If "success" is defined as performing better than your peers, it creates an incentive to prevent your peers from performing well. If everybody is actively sabotaging each other's efforts, or even just not helping each other, that hurts the company's overall performance.