The Performance Review: An Annual Festival of Things You Could Have Told Me in March
There are few workplace traditions quite as bizarre as the annual performance review. Once a year, you are invited into a conference room—or, these days, onto a Zoom call—to learn how you’ve apparently been doing for the previous 12 months. Twelve months. That’s 365 days of work, deadlines, emergencies, impossible clients, last-minute filings, partner requests, new software, staffing...