I wonder how many employees who have achieved the top performance rating are seriously downgraded here? I really couldn’t accept to just shrug my shoulders and wait for them to lay me off. As soon as that happened I immediately started looking for a new job. Karma is fast, this company is completely downgrading.
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Agree with @1xsm+1besQvrv, in ANZ we were told to downgrade, of course nothing in writing, The exec want to be able to say that the meagre (if any) pay rise was down to the manager's rating, not them. I ignored it and left it to the "calibration" process whatever that is. Calibration is evidence of the faceless ones downgrading (no one is ever upgraded) ratings on people they don't know for reasons that are outside the publicised purpose of the Annual Review.
Its like a cr!minal enterprise, those at the top ensure that outcomes of their decisions can't be traced back to them, nothing is ever in writing. They rely on the compliance of middle management to do the dirty work.
In ANZ we were explicitly told to downgrade The rationale was to do with normal distribution but the reality is that by acknowledging good performance you give the employee leverage in terms of pay. So downgrade and take the pay discussion of the table.