Hacker News with Generative AI: Performance Management

Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees (businessinsider.com)
Microsoft is planning job cuts soon and the company is taking a harder look at underperforming employees as part of the reductions, according to two people familiar with the plans.
Microsoft, Layoffs, Business, Technology, Performance Management
21 points by 72f988bf 10 days ago | 7 comments
Performance improvement plans are on the rise (wsj.com)
In the messy business of getting rid of employees, the PIP is having a moment.
Performance Management, Human Resources, Layoffs
127 points by impish9208 50 days ago | 191 comments
Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed? (timdellinger.substack.com)
It’s probably Pareto-distributed, not Gaussian, which elucidates a few things about some of the problems that performance management processes have at large corporations, and also speaks to why it’s so hard to hire good people. Oh, and for the economists: the Marginal Productivity Theory of Wages is cleverly combined with the Gini Coefficient to arrive at the key insight.
Performance Management, Statistics, Economics, Hiring
328 points by timdellinger 54 days ago | 334 comments
Stop Ignoring Your High Performers (hbr.org)
In every organization, high performers are the driving force behind innovation, productivity, and excellence.
Leadership, Performance Management, Business
79 points by kiyanwang 97 days ago | 93 comments
Ask HN: How does your company do performance reviews? (ycombinator.com)
Human Resources, Performance Management, Company Culture, Work
13 points by cheapsteak 270 days ago | 9 comments