Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on a performance management plan
I thought it was concealed carry at first 😂
Don’t give bezos any ideas
It's not even Bezos anymore lol
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If you pay some people enough they will do anything.
If Hire and Develop the Best failed: Frugality + Insist on Highest Standards This may work better if it becomes more of a fierce battle among managers and whoever had most reports in Focus would be sent to Focus🍌
Why even tell them they work for Amazon....? You gotta keep every edge you can against those pesky "workers"
Whoaaaa what the f*ck. Incredible
And by that I mean incredibly bad. I worked at a FAANG, not Amazon, and saw my share of nastiness but this is absolutely unheard of sickening
That article twists. Context former EM at Amazon, and likely Focused twice and Pivoted once. The gap is really around the expectation for managers to give ongoing feedback to employees and coach for growth. Since there isn't a framework or system to do that, most managers don't. So when there is a poor performing employee, in all likelihood, the manager hasn't had coaching discussions with that employee. Focus forces the EM to have those discussions, and forces there to be a paper trail. It's something that should be happening, but isn't usually. When it gets real, and Pivot starts, that's the actual performance management plan and is in plain sight of the employee. Now it would be a complete CF if an employee goes from 'all good' to Pivot in one step - and it's a gap on the shitty manager side. Now, the URA target, and how Focus contributes to it is weak and silly. It's a joint issue between the manager and employee during Focus (the manager hasn't communicated, and the employee hasn't introspected to measure their performance against others).
A good manager will coach continually. A great manage will coach with goals and written references continually. A normal manager will coach occasionally. Bad don't at all. So the general behavior for normal managers will be that they move some to pivot and suddenly they will start providing feedback, and providing written copies of that feedback. That change in behavior by the manager is a strong indication of impending formal PIP or something similar. As I said in the comment to the OP, Focus being not shared with the employee is entirely reasonable. The impact of focus (less mobility, and URA flag if you leave) is shitty. With a good manager, the coaching will give you a good read on where you are to either improve, transfer or leave. Also introspection by the employee should happen as well, but then there is Illusory superiority bias which makes most people blind.
How would employees get to know then? Once they are ready to be fired?
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