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  Microsoft's EAT-your-own-YOUNG management system AXED
Time: 14:55 EST/19:55 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson

Microsoft may soon be a much nicer place to work, thanks to the company's announcement that it's doing away with its infamous "stack ranking" employee performance reviews. In a company-wide email obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Lisa Brummel, executive VP of Redmond's human resources department, explained that managers will no longer be required to rank their employees on a bell curve, as in the old system.
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