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The German Works Council has blocked Amazon's performance reviews

29•jerrryyy•1d ago
No url at this moment.

Managers are no longer allowed to rate their direct reports based in Germany, and it appears this is a permanent decision. Let’s see if Seattle weighs in.

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digitalPhonix•1d ago
How do other large companies in Germany handle performance reviews/raises/bonuses?
Adept-Hermanus•20h ago
Just fine. Worker's Councils have a voice in what is measured and how it is measured and they usually find a reasonable formula with management. Without knowing the details, I am going to assume Amazon was being invasive, draconian and exploitative in their approach.
shahbaby•1d ago
Mad respect to the Germans for taking a stand on this.

The entire idea of measuring worker performance is not only dehumanizing but is particularly flawed when it comes to knowledge work.

It's like trying to determine the faster car by racing through rush hour traffic. Or ignoring the fact that each car is on a different incline.

Knowing the right people and being in the right place at the right time can often make or break one's career.

Yet we are to incorporate these factors that are for the most part not in our control as a measurement of our own "performance". The unlucky get insult added to injury. The lucky get a dose of ego or fear (depending on their level of self-awareness).

It seems like corporate gaslighting to me.

Nicholas_C•1d ago
Counterpoint: some people are just better at their jobs than others
slightwinder•19h ago
Counterpoint: some people are simply faking their results, selling them better than they are, or scarify necessary parts which will bite the company months or years later.

This makes it hard to impossible to get reliable, or even fair results. Especially when the review is subjective and is lacking an objective metric as a base.

nine_zeros•1d ago
Wow, finally someone had the balls to say that stack ranking and PIPing people like a meat grinder is inhuman.
Ros23•1d ago
And Amazon will move those jobs to India. Mission accomplished. I'd argue that was the very original goal of all this. Worker Councils lineally shot themselves in the foot.
giantg2•20h ago
So when do we start putting tariffs on imported code? If it's all just a shell game to move to the lowest paid and most abusive environment available, then working conditions will never really improve.
Adept-Hermanus•20h ago
If those jobs could be moved to India, they would already be there. But you cannot run a fulfilment center one continent over. Or a competitive (EU data protection legislation compliant) datacenter.

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