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Performance management

How employers rate, calibrate and review employee performance, including its use in layoffs and promotion decisions.

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Cappelli's study of 760 employees traces a two-tier workforce to remote work

Wharton's Peter Cappelli and Jasmine Wu interviewed 760 staff at a global financial services firm and found remote and hybrid work cut colleague contact. The evidence comes from one firm, but it gives managers who treat hybrid work as settled a reason to re-examine what it costs in collaboration and training.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence45
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Ex-eBay Motors manager's Sarbanes-Oxley suit extends retaliation claims to his job references

A former eBay Motors manager says in a Sarbanes-Oxley suit that eBay fired him in 2015 for reporting fraud and then sabotaged his next job. His complaint treats those later references as part of the retaliation, so what managers say about a former employee after the exit now sits beside the firing itself.

Publishers:hcamag.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives70
Confidence35