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As the year wraps up, you might be feeling a bit anxious about your upcoming employee performance reviews. These evaluations can feel unproductive and tedious, and they can even increase employee ...

August 18, 2025 - Employers often encounter significant challenges when addressing the performance of employees particularly when the performance counseling (e.g., a performance discussion and/or ...

A great leader articulates goals well, assigns tasks effectively, and provides regular feedback to ensure the train stays on the tracks. If the leader doesn’t do their job well, then they cannot ...

George Kassar does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Workers who were put on performance-improvement plans described how it affected them. One ex-Google employee said he knew he wouldn't be able to ride out the PIP. A former Amazon employee said they ...

The Trump administration and Elon Musk have insisted that they are carefully purging the federal workforce by firing only low-performing employees serving in non-critical roles, or recent hires on ...

Patrick Synge fired one of his employees for secretly working a second remote job. He shared how he caught the employee and why he decided to fire them. He says overemployment is “unethical” and hurts ...

A former McKinsey associate said the firm has manufactured bad performance reviews to avoid laying people off, which is impacting their job search.