Google is hoping to make its performance reviews less of a burden to employees by making it so they only happen once a year instead of twice a year, requiring less paperwork and changing the way employees are rated. According to a report from the information, 47 percent of Google employees did not think that their time was spent with the previous performance review system.
It is often hard to point to how internal changes can effects end users but google as a company has a reputation for either pulling the plug on products or letting them wither without getting proper attention. At some point, though actual humans have to work on those projects it is always possible that if employees can focus on their actual jobs instead of having to worry every few months about proving they deserve a raise we could see Google products getting more of the support they deserve.
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According to a public site, Google is switching to its new system this month. It calls it grad which stands for Googler reviews and development. The page explains that employees will still check in with their managers throughout the year to get feedback and plan career development but that they will only receive performance rating once a year. Google says that its new scale will reflect the fact that most Googlers deliver significant impact every day.
