
Everyone Should Always Be on A PIP

Whenever a "Performance Improvement Plan" (PIP) is mentioned at work, people get nervous.
For most companies, the PIP is a final bit of paperwork a manager writes when they've already decided to fire an employee - but HR or the lawyers say they need a documented paper trail before they can pull the trigger. "We need to show that we communicated information about performance to justify the termination," they say, and a set of really difficult objectives . . .