Section archive
Category: Performance
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The End of the Annual Review: How Adaptive Performance Management Is Replacing the Calendar in 2026
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Performance Management The annual performance review — a structure that has barely changed in 80 years — is finally dying. But it is not being replaced by something worse. It is being replaced by something better: adaptive…
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The Performance Review Is Dead — Long Live Performance: How Companies Are Doing Continuous Evaluation Without Burning People Out
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Performance Management The annual performance review — that awkward, once-a-year conversation where managers try to summarize an employee’s entire year of work into a rating and a set of comments — is officially dead. According to a…
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The AI-Driven Performance Management Revolution Is Already Reshaping How Companies Evaluate People
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Performance Management Artificial intelligence has moved beyond the hype phase in performance management. By late 2026, 63% of S&P 500 companies actively use AI-driven tools to support, augment, or fully automate parts of their performance evaluation processes…
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June 2025 Performance Management Trends: Continuous Feedback Becomes the Standard
By June 2025, continuous performance management had become the dominant model for knowledge work organizations, replacing the annual review in most companies. The shift was driven by employee demand for more regular feedback, manager demand for simpler processes, and technology that made…