As if performance reviews weren't already positioned to be stressful enough in a year shadowed by exhaustive debates around return to office, lost productivity, and the future of work, employees at Google are bracing for ramped up work anxiety as the Silicon Valley giant intensifies its performance review process for the end of the year.
Google, The Information reported earlier last week, has asked managers to identify 6% of employees—roughly 10,000 people—as "low performers" in terms of their impact on the company's bottom line. The old system asked them to identify 2% of underperforming employees. This means that the number of people able to score high marks, whatever that actually looks like, gets smaller.
