#360-Feedback

360-degree feedback is the corporate ritual of allowing bosses, subordinates, and peers to anonymously broadcast their impressions like hidden microphones. Opinions gathered from all directions arrive as a cocktail of contradictions, elation, and dread. The goodwill of evaluators often transforms into unseen spears that leave quiet scars on those being reviewed. Results become metrics touted as merits while also triggering secondary disasters of gossip and anxiety. In the end the system meant to be an equal court becomes a stage for unequal power struggles.

360-degree feedback is a spectacle in which managers, subordinates, peers, and even office plants evaluate each other in a grand display. Participants, eager to protect their own positions, launch ruthless comments from behind the mask of anonymity. Beneath the system’s beautified guise lies a harmony of shirking responsibility and plunging productivity. Evaluation sheets transform overnight into scars on the heart, with improvement points reproducing infinitely. Ultimately, it is nothing more than an extravagant ritual in which no one takes responsibility and no one is saved.