Why the Most Hated Way of Firing Someone Is More Popular Than Ever

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2024-12-05

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In an era of tighter company budgets and efficiency, performance improvement plans, or PIPs are on the rise. Wall Street Journal reporter Lauren Weber joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how PIPs work and what employees placed in them can do.  Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • For Thursday, December 5, I'm JR Whalen for the Wall Street Journal.

  • As companies tighten budgets and look to boost efficiency,

  • they often use performance as a metric when looking to downsize staff.

  • For employees not meeting their goals, performance improvement plans or PIPs are on the rise.

  • Because a PIP is really do or die.

  • It usually says on the formal document that you receive when you're put on a plan,

  • failure to meet these expectations or meet these goals could result in termination.

  • We'll talk to Wall Street Journal Workplace reporter Lauren Weber after the break.

  • The percentage of workers subject to performance actions,

  • including performance improvement plans, has increased about 30% since 2020.

  • Wall Street Journal reporter Lauren Weber joins me.

  • Lauren, what is the purpose of a performance improvement plan?

  • On the face of it, it's to improve someone's performance.

  • The idea is that if an employee is not meeting expectations or underperforming

  • that you come up with a systematic list of things that they can do within a certain amount of time in order to improve,