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The German Works Council has blocked Amazon's performance reviews

29 points jerrryyy | 2 comments | 14 Jul 25 15:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.492s | source

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Managers are no longer allowed to rate their direct reports based in Germany, and it appears this is a permanent decision. Let’s see if Seattle weighs in.

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digitalPhonix ◴[15 Jul 25 00:38 UTC] No.44566769[source]▶
How do other large companies in Germany handle performance reviews/raises/bonuses?
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1. Adept-Hermanus ◴[15 Jul 25 12:47 UTC] No.44570582[source]▶
Just fine. Worker's Councils have a voice in what is measured and how it is measured and they usually find a reasonable formula with management. Without knowing the details, I am going to assume Amazon was being invasive, draconian and exploitative in their approach.
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2. aalhour ◴[16 Jul 25 09:16 UTC] No.44580268[source]▶
I worked as a manager at a local German company in Germany with a strong Worker's Council team. Performance Management was run through them, they had comments, the process was adapted and managers were onboarded. This is not to say that performance management doesn't suck in general (because once you start having metrics, people start gaming them and you're almost superimposing it on people's way of working), but the Worker's Council didn't block it, because at the end of the day it was neither invasive nor exploitative.

EDIT: typos.