PIPs are absolutely not required - I've seen people more people fired without them than with them. A Performance Improvement Plan is not the same thing as docu

PIPs are absolutely not required - I've seen people more people fired without them than with them. A Performance Improvement Plan is not the same thing as documenting an employee's misdeeds. Yes, you need to document to protect yourself legally, but what you don't need to do is put them on a rigged "plan" that is intentionally engineered to fail. Collecting evidence to fire an employee is one thing - a PIP veers into manufacturing evidence to fire an employee.