Just when I thought the work-life balance couldn’t get much worse, global adopts “a performance culture” where a certain percentage of the population must be rated as a low performer. This will increase negative competition between us, and everyone will start keeping their knowledge to themselves more so that they are more valuable to the company. We’ve been here before.
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game of thrones baby for real
In the past this was only applied to the US employees no other country because they want to outsource all US employees. Remember, they (TC & TB) are eating the dogs, they are eating the cats, they are eating the pets ...... US GF employees are the dogs, cats and pets, you better have a plan "B" if you work in the US for GF.
Unions will only destroy the workers and help the company. Don’t give up your power.
Need to unionize or leave.
They did this in 2024, in the rolling/quiet layoffs, for mgr’s who didn’t want to deal with creating and managing a PIP.
Good luck & take care
I wouldn’t say that’s “new”, they given people I know no raise at the end of the year without a single conversation regarding their “low performance”throughout the year. Then it’s a chain of trying to escalate to higher management and then again given zero reasoning. Management just expects you just to give up and accept your pleasant surprise of -6% to inflation. If you mention this around your shift, you will have a target painted on your back by upper management. It’s all a scheme to stay within the raise budget while basically giving your raise to the one superstar staff technician on your shift. Not saying the superstars don’t deserve that raise but at the expense of the less experienced who are trying to gain knowledge is a morale ki-ler.
No improvement is grounds for termination? That’s a little extreme. I’m trying to fathom how’s that actually realistic. Everyone will face some stagnation in their career and role, but more significantly, chasing perfection indefinitely will result in diminishing returns because perfection is not possible. Even if it were possible, perfection is an end goal where improvement would no longer be possible.
This will make the cream rise too the top and we can focus on getting rid of the lower rated worker. Instant performance plan would be my suggestion. No improvement is grounds for termination.
These systems never work out. Suppose you have a team of all above avg performers all doing the same good quality work. Then it breaks down whose project is higher priority will get the higher ranking. And lower priority will get lowest. And as we all know there are work horses that do a lot but it doesn’t get noticed. The system is very flawed and will spiral out of control. It’s a bad idea and will worsen and already very bad situation here. Good thinking HR! That’s why you guys are the best in the biz!
They have to get rid of remote working next. Everyone should be on site. It will build morale and teamwork. We have to copy the Elon Musk model if we want to succeed.
Awesome! That was one of my suggestions last survey. Glad they did it.