Tim Paradis

Do you hate performance reviews at work as much as I do?

Well, good news, in some places they're disappearing, but bad news, they're being replaced by constant feedback discussions with your boss and even AI judging you at all times.

Sounds fun, sounds dystopian.

Let's discuss it here with future of work correspondent at Business Insider, Tim Paradis.

Tim, welcome to the show.

Thanks, David.

I, every quarter as a manager, I had to write performance reviews.

I don't know what was worse, going through them myself or writing them.

Let's start here.

Why do corporations even need these things?

I feel like in small scrappy businesses, they don't even do them.

But at large corporations, it's just like this slog you have to get through.

documentation and accountability but uh they're definitely not a fun thing for either either side of the equation why do people hate them so much is it the reflection is it the feeling so exposed is it the being judged by your boss in a room alone with them with a piece of paper with bullet points about how you performed in the last quarter i'm saying all this with no experience with these i swear right why do people hate them

My favorite technique is the sandwich when you give good feedback, bad feedback, good feedback to try to like obscure the negative stuff.

There's so many weird coping mechanisms, but let's put the reality of them to date aside.

How are large corporations shifting the performance review?

At first, this seems like great news, like I was saying when I first introduced you.

But in reality, what they're doing instead might be worse.

I don't know.

Before I made the career change into radio, I was a programmer at a big company, a software engineer.