Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

November 18, Google launched a stricter performance appraisal system within the company earlier this year. Under the new standards, more than 10,000 Google employees may not be up to standard and are at risk of being laid off.

The new performance evaluation tool, called GRAD, will change the way Google employees score their performance. Under the new standard, 6% of Google employees are likely to get poor reviews, up from 2% before.

According to Google's latest report, the company has 186000 employees. If according to the new assessment standards, the performance of about 11000 employees in the company will not be up to standard.

As layoffs in the tech industry hit Meta, Amazon and other technology companies, Google employees are increasingly worried that they could be next. Google has avoided mass layoffs in the past, but some employees are beginning to worry that Google will reduce the number of employees and operating costs based on a new performance appraisal system.

Failing to meet the standards may give Google reason to put its employees on the list of performance evaluation plans and then kick out the door.

In the new performance appraisal system, even the second-lowest "medium impact" assessment means that employees "do not always meet expectations or standards", according to Google's internal guidelines. The guidelines state that evaluation indicators should not be forcibly assigned to employees, but companies want to be able to "roughly meet" the indicators. The guidelines also emphasize that the new performance appraisal system may bring more changes in teams with fewer than 5000 employees.

In recent weeks, team managers have been inviting employees to hold substandard performance briefings. According to internal documents, managers need to meet before they can give employees the two lowest scores in the new performance appraisal system. It was previously reported that Google required 10% of employees in every department of the company to be marked as substandard.

"if employees do not respond to their substandard performance, the next step is to be included in the performance evaluation plan," said one person familiar with the matter. "

This week, activist investor TCI Fund Management called on Google to cut jobs. One analyst said downsizing based on performance reviews was not enough and called on companies to take more aggressive action.

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