> My company skipped year-end self-reviews twice now and the impact has been...nothing?
I wish this caught on more. Unfortunately, it's all tied up in what HR departments use to justify their existence. I wish that HR execs just f-ing read them and realized it's a huge waste of time and the vast majority of these reviews are people just going through the motions and writing down whatever they can come up with in 20 minutes.
Agreed. It becomes a checkbox exercise for HR - “we developed a performance review process”.
The further along I get in my career the more I realize it doesn’t really matter. Do what you think is right. Take feedback but don’t treat it too seriously unless it impacts team performance.
If I take a step back it seems to me most companies are a thousand monkeys banging at a thousand typewriters.
If you can produce something from that chaos, that’s what matters, not some HR form.
I wish this caught on more. Unfortunately, it's all tied up in what HR departments use to justify their existence. I wish that HR execs just f-ing read them and realized it's a huge waste of time and the vast majority of these reviews are people just going through the motions and writing down whatever they can come up with in 20 minutes.