Lauren Weber
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first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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Because a PIP is really do or die.
It usually says on the formal document that you receive when you're put on a plan, failure to meet these expectations or meet these goals could result in termination.
On the face of it, it's to improve someone's performance.
The idea is that if an employee is not meeting expectations or underperforming, that you come up with a systematic list of things that they can do within a certain amount of time in order to improve.
get back on track and keep their jobs.
That's the outward reason for it.
In many cases, what we found from speaking to people is that both managers and employees is that by the time the PIP comes along, the performance improvement plan, a company in some cases has already decided they want to terminate someone.
And so this is more of an exercise in documentation in order to help the company avoid legal liability down the road.
We found some data showing that in 2023, they were used on about 43.6 workers out of every 1,000.
We're involved in some kind of formal performance procedure, which includes a PIP.
That is about a 30% increase from four years ago in 2020, when they were used with about 33.4 workers out of every 1,000.
So their use has gone up quite substantially.
There's a lot of reasons for it.
One is kind of a hangover from the pandemic.
You remember the labor shortages from like 2021, 2022, when companies couldn't find enough workers quickly enough, and in some cases would just hire anybody who would show up for the job and continue showing up for the job.
So what that...
meant was a lot of people who were not a good fit for certain jobs got hired or maybe not qualified for certain jobs, didn't want to be in those jobs.
Part of this now is a little bit of a culling of some of that hiring that happened then that was perhaps ill considered.
Another piece of it is the economy is just a little bit weaker, more tentative.
Companies are worried about profits.
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