#Performance Management

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.

Performance management is the ritual of imprisoning employee achievements within numerical bars to soothe managerial anxieties. At quarter’s end, it hoists the banner of objectives, extols successes, and castigates failures. Beneath the guise of improvement lie the twin spirits of control lust and metric worship. Evaluations and feedback, in truth, serve as weapons for self-preservation and the cult of promotion.

Performance management is the magical ritual of quantifying achievements and placing employees under endless surveillance. Managers brandish cursed graphs, while subordinates dance as slaves to numbers. Targets are ever upwardly revised, and any sense of accomplishment exists only in reports. Human labor is imprisoned in a cage of metrics, and freedom is subjugated to figures.