Performance reviews are a habitual part of any company’s year — but has this annual routine evolved alongside the workforce in the last century?
If you ask Joshua Merrill, CEO of performance review platform Confirm, the answer is a resounding no. In fact, performance appraisals can be traced back to Walter D. Scott, who owned a consulting firm in Australia. He introduced the concept of rating the abilities of his staff as early as World War I. However, in a professional world of rigid hierarchy and very little diversity, Scott’s model doesn’t tell a workforce’s full story, explains Merrill.
