Microsoft's new performance improvement plan includes an option for employees to get paid to quit. It's similar to Amazon's ...

It later fired roughly 2,000 low-performing employees without severance. Microsoft rolls out a harsh policy. Now, it appears ...

After Meta took a big PR hit for its handling of recent layoffs, Microsoft spelled out what constitutes poor job performance. It’s a lesson for all business leaders.

Microsoft is implementing stricter performance management policies, including a two-year rehire ban for underperformers and ...

Microsoft has created new policies and tools for managers as the company dials up performance pressure on employees.

In an internal email seen by Business Insider, Microsoft's new chief people officer Amy Coleman wrote about new and enhanced ...

The development comes mere weeks after the tech giant fired around 2000 employees without severance pay after deeming them as ...

Instead of blaming downsizing, companies are publicly calling their former employees "low performers" to excuse their termination. A group of business and HR experts discussed the cruel reason ...

Too often, we confuse star performers with ideal leaders. But the real secret to sustained team success may lie not with the high scorers (or the equivalent in the business world), but with the ...

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg told his staff in January he had “decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster”, a move expected to eliminate about 3,600 jobs.

By Sarah Mervosh There was once a time when America’s lowest-performing students were improving just as much as the country’s top students. Despite their low scores, these students at the ...