Microsoft is also said to have imported Meta’s policy of blacklisting departed employees it doesn’t want back. In Microsoft’s case, BI said, the two-year bar applies only to people let go for underperformance. Microsoft also changing its bonus rewards system by increasing the rewards granted to workers producing the most results over periods of three or four years, rather than just one or two.

Microsoft’s actions follow similar moves by Meta, Google, and Amazon, which all recently introduced incentives for workers to produce at the highest levels they can—while regularly firing employees considered to be lagging.

Intel did this a number of years back under BK and it didn’t go so great. Many great employees left and never came back because of the punitive nature. An employee might not be a great fit for one group – but does that warrant black-balling an employee for ALL positions? It seems like a failure of management and hiring to me.

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