“The only people who hate performance reviews are the ones who know they're underperforming”
Agree
- Accountability is uncomfortable for slackers
- Good performers welcome feedback
- Objective measures reveal truth
- Complaints are defensive mechanisms
Disagree
- Most review systems are broken
- Politics trump actual performance
- Subjective bias dominates ratings
- Good workers suffer bad processes too
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