performance improvement plans (or pips) is one of the most dangerous things for any employee. If you are ‘pipped in’ it is usually a sign that you may need to start looking for a new job. but for people who work heroine Things are scary. As part of Amazon’s ‘Focus’ performance management tool, your manager shouldn’t have to warn you if your performance is being monitored, according to a report in The Seattle Times.
Amazon doesn’t want its employees to know that their performance is not up to the mark and that their work is under scrutiny. In other words, you won’t even know if you’ve already been ‘put in a pip’. And you could be losing your job at Amazon before you officially know you’ve been a low-performing employee.
As per Amazon’s policy, the employee will know whether their performance is under scrutiny when he asks the manager.
When employees encounter the Focus tool at Amazon, there’s a chance they may be “pressured” to leave. “Amazon tracks the number of employees in focus in terms of meeting its goal for “unrestricted attrition.” About 6% of the office workers Amazon expects to exit the company each year, according to internal Amazon human resources documents. ,” as reported by the Seattle Times.
The report said Amazon wants more than a third of the underperforming employees tracked by the Focus tool to “fail the program” and leave the company. The only thing is that employees will never know that the Focus tool is tracking their performance.
The report also noted that some employees learned that they were in focus “by accident” when they applied for transfer to another team. “They described the experience of not knowing whether they were on focus, or how to get off, as emotionally draining,” it added.
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