You notice a strange new calendar invite with your manager and human resources on it. You join up and get a performance improvement plan (PIP) document—it lists performance shortfall, sets targets and a ticking clock of 30, 60 or 90 days. Miss them, and lose your job. You are not alone. Around 400-500 Microsoft India employees, roughly 2% of its workforce, may be affected by a glob al PIP exercise, Pareekh Jain of EIIRTrend told ET this month. Your first reaction was ET this month. Your first reaction was ET to argue, your second emotion was to resign and storm off, but you held back. The real mistake comes later. You spend time trying to figure out if they want you to stay or leave. You cannot know and you do not need to. Instead, run two plans on that one clock.
