According to CNET, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees on Wednesday that Google has comprehensively reformed its employee performance evaluation procedures and reduced the number of evaluations faced by employees from two to one a year** According to the information, the new review schedule aims to improve morale and reduce the time for employees to prepare assessments.
Pichai reportedly cited the company's annual internal "Google geist" survey. Among them, employees are dissatisfied with the promotion opportunities within the company. Pichai said that only 53% of Google employees believe that the current system "makes rational use of time". Google did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
For Google employees, the annual review system will still allow them to be considered for promotion twice a year. The move follows meta, which also changed to an annual performance review last year.
The new system will also create new ratings for Google employees and rank them according to their impact on the company. This can range from transformative impact to moderate impact, and then to insufficient impact. Google told employees that the ongoing changes reflected a shift in the market and a "renewed focus" on employee development.
Employees can now move to a new role and remain at the same level. Before they are qualified for a new job, they must be promoted to a new one.
There is growing discord within Silicon Valley as employees are told to return to the office. In an anonymous survey conducted on blind, 62% of employees surveyed said they were dissatisfied with the return to the office that began last month.
According to Bloomberg, many Silicon Valley companies are facing employee turnover. For example, the employee turnover rate of Amazon Web services (AWS) is between 20% and 50%. According to the report of business insider, the employee turnover rate of Uber is 20%. According to a survey last year, 72% of IT workers are considering resigning within 12 months. These may be market forces driving changes within Google.