Let’s get rid of annual appraisals and replace them with snapshots

Around three years ago my colleague Cathy Busani organised a vote of all our employees on whether they wanted to keep the annual appraisal. As she expected, they didn’t – with 83% voting to scrap them.

Of course it still makes sense to carry out a regular review, so we replaced it with a four monthly happy@happy snapshot. Find out more in this blog.

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