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Atlassian ditches 'brilliant jerks' in performance review overhaul
Atlassian says it will no longer tolerate "brilliant jerks" who deliver results for the company but make life hell for their co-workers as part of a complete overhaul of how the tech firm conducts performance reviews.
The $47 billion Australian software company, which was founded in Sydney in 2002 and floated on the US stock market in 2015, says two-thirds of every performance review will now have nothing to do with job skills.
Instead, equal weighting will be given to how each of its 3000 employees impacts others on their team, and to how they live the company values. Atlassian says the change will “more fairly measure people on how they bring their whole self to work”.
“Basically over the last 18 to 24 months we have totally changed the way we do performance reviews at the company globally,” Atlassian global head of talent Bek Chee said.
“We recognise things are not the way they used to be, yet companies haven’t evolved (from) 30 years ago when they were primarily made up often of white men. Tech standards have evolved, we have new ways of working, new demographics and generational change.”
Ms Chee said most companies “haven’t looked at their performance systems in a new innovative way”. “We wanted to make sure we were rewarding the right behaviours,” she said.
“One of the things we wanted to make sure we accounted for was the ‘brilliant jerk’ — people who are extremely bright and talented with respect to the way they execute their role but aren’t necessarily concerned with the impact they have on others. We want to make sure our system prevented that.”
Ms Chee said it was “not about people being shuffled out” of the company, but “what it has allowed us to do is really de-bias the performance system” by taking into account an employee’s entire contribution.
[...] Ms Chee said appealing to the millennial and gen Y and Z crowd was “a huge part of this”. “We know the next generation are very socially conscious, they have a different set of expectations. They’re kind of no-bullshit. They don’t want to hear a company say, ‘You can bring your whole self to work, we’re diverse, we’re socially conscious’, and not have that backed up.”
But she stressed that it was not about coddling millennials with a participation-trophy mentality. “Fundamentally this does not change the way we think about high performers. Our top performers we know nail it in terms of living values and being part of the team and delivering in their role,” she said.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Saturday July 20 2019, @02:24AM (2 children)
The clue to the puzzle is: "white men".
Now, why is that brought up at all? This is talking about jerks right? And jerks come in all sexes and colors. The fact that something entirely unrelated was mentioned suggests that the real motive is not getting rid of jerks. What the real motive may be is left as an exercise for the reader.
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(Score: 1) by ChrisMaple on Saturday July 20 2019, @04:32AM
It's brought up because this is an obvious attempt to arbitrarily discriminate by someone who is neither white nor male, and who uses faddish touchy-feely language. What makes it even more obvious is that this crap constitutes two thirds of the performance review. The criteria are non-objective and impossible to quantify. The result will be that brown-nosers, the politically savvy, and drinking buddies of those in power will get all the raises.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday July 20 2019, @02:36PM
Asian women who've gotten dumped by a white boyfriend are on average the most racist people I've ever met.
Often they have no self awareness they're oversharing. Nobody cares why my junior prom date and I broke up decades ago; on the other hand, she thinks every "woke" loser on the planet needs to stand up and clap in response to her ex- boyfriend who made her hate white men. Often its not even a boyfriend issue, its more like "how dare a world exist where both hot guys with yellow fever exist YET they ignored me anyway".
Cucking is very white privilege. Remember that girl in ohio who got kidnapped and anally raped with a corn cob by an illegal until she slowly bled to death and afterward her father was all over the news claiming he loves illegals because they have better food? What an anti-evolutionary anti-social anti-civilization POS. Other races don't have that problem; an Asian girl gets dumped by a white boy one time, and for the rest of her life she won't shut up about how therefore it makes perfect sense to genocide all white males. Some dude a thousand miles away cheated on her decades ago, she wants me dead today; what could make more sense?