Blizzard's 'Workplace Ranking' For Employees Sounds Like Hell

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Blizzard's 'workplace ranking' for employees sounds like hell:

In 2021, Blizzard, a unit of Activision Blizzard Inc., implemented a process called stack ranking, in which employees are ranked on a bell curve and managers must give low ratings to a certain percentage of staff, according to people familiar with the change who asked not to be named discussing a private matter.

You’ll have to forgive me here, as despite my tenure in this job I still live and work in Australia and so aren’t fully up to speed on the specifics of American office conditions, but? You’re telling me this company has implemented a system where 5% of its workforce, even if they’re doing just fine, even if they’re going aNo wonder people are pissed! One of those people, Brian Birmingham, a co-lead developer onreport he emailed staff last week to “to express his frustration with this system”.

 

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