I’m curious if HR takes that into consideration or if it’s just the consultants in a room drawing up new orgs without input on who the performers are.
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Inconsistent rating over the prior 3 years will be cut. Low hanging fruit.
Successful, Highly Successful and Exceptional won't matter. It doesn't matter for bonus or merit increase, it doesn't matter now......
Last time I got a "highly successful" it worked out to like a $172 increase in my annual bonus PSP. joke.
No, ratings do not come into play. I know someone who was on an action plan and after 2 layoffs they are still around performing the bare minimum.
Nope
Yes and no - yes the ratings matter in that employees seen as a 'problem' will likely make the list cos it's easier to lay them off than fire them as the former limits the company's liability exposure.
No in the sense that even good performance ratings could still make you a target - for instance if you're above a certain age and/or well-paid, it could be more lucrative for a company to lay you off than keep you on. Then they backfill with someone younger/cheaper/contractor/offshore and pocket the savings. Rinse, lather, repeat.
So that means if you've had an inconsistent, you should be all packed. Is that it?
They don't matter in terms of whether you're kept around due to good performance. As someone posted earlier, they DO matter if you're someone that has been previously identified for a PIP or generally low ratings (whether fair or not). Nike rarely fires people, they just keep people around until the next layoff and do it then OR they do things like demote you and move you to a bad-fit role so you quit on your own.
From what I’ve seen so far, and if similar to the 2017 layoffs, it is mostly determined by your team and title. That’s why it isn’t personal, but it feels that way. Wrong place at the wrong time. If only a handful need to be cut from teams, the lowest performers normally go first.
No, they don't matter. In the last round of layoffs years ago, there was a post on this forum about someone who got laid off and who had won a Maxim award. They had given years to the company and had exemplary reviews. If that doesn't count for anything, I'm not sure what does.
They don’t.
Yeah, they do. Nike has a hard time "firing" people so they wait until layoffs to cut ties.
I've never seen a company so afraid to fire.