A recent ranking by the Burning Glass Institute, Schultz Family Foundation and Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work Project found W.W. Grainger and nine other companies to be ...

by William D'Angelo, posted on 02 February 2023 / 3,279 Views. Brian Birmingham, the World of Warcraft Classic lead and 17 year veteran at Blizzard, has left the company due to its "stack-ranking ...

Stacked-ranking systems can also require the lowest-ranked people on the team to be laid off, which Welch, who died in 2020, famously said was “the right thing for them” as they’d likely get ...

THIS WEEK, several of my longtime business friends were going back and forth about a recent story published by Matthew Boyle from Bloomberg about how Jack Welch’s employee ranking system ...

The employee ranking system at Blizzard, known as stack ranking, was first implemented back in 2021 and has employees graded on a bell curve. Because of this curve, ...

WoW Classic Lead Protests Activision Blizzard's Employee Ranking Policy, Is Fired. Brian Birmingham had worked at Blizzard since 2006. By Cameron Koch on January 24, 2023 at 11:14AM PST.

The company’s rating scale, named the “ManageRewards slider,” ranges from 0 to 200, and managers are instructed not to disclose it or the employees’ scores, referred to as “tick marks.” ...

Meta laid off over 11,000 employees in November. Changes to the target for its lowest performance ratings suggest headcount may continue to fall. Business Insider ...

Blizzard terminates WoW Classic co-lead over protest against employee ranking policy. Brian Birmingham was forced to lower a colleague's ranking from 'successful' to 'developing' to fill a quota.