Justin Fox, Columnist

The Age of the Never-Ending Performance Review

Real-time evaluation makes sense, unless it gets too dystopian.

One bad move and they give your job to somebody else.

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The annual performance review seems to be on its way out at U.S. corporations. Prominent companies have been ending the practice of numerically ranking employees as well.

Sounds great! Performance reviews are a pain, right?