Yahoo HR department prepares new methods to evaluate employee efficiency

Summary: Yahoo CEO Mayer (Marissa Mayer) after taking office, will provide free lunch to staff, but also send a free smartphone, but now she has to show the other side. According to several people familiar with the matter, the previous Yahoo during Christmas to the New year, will leave most employees a

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's CEO, offered free lunches to employees and free smartphones, but now she's showing the other side. According to several people familiar with the matter, prior to the Christmas to the New year, Yahoo will let most of the staff take a week off, now Ms. Mayer concluded the implementation of the plan for many years.

During the holiday period, many internet companies will slow down their operations and relax their working hours, but it is rare for Yahoo to shut down its operations and leave only the necessary staff.

For a long time to come, Yahoo may cancel a week's vacation, and many companies think it should be canceled because Yahoo has offered paid leave to 12,000 employees.

"Yahoo has a lot of work to do and no time to rest," said one Yahoo employee. ”

From a financial standpoint, it is advantageous to have a week off for employees. Giving employees a week off in the quarter will cost you less than a week in the coming year, and it will save you the cost of running the company.

In addition to vacations, employees face greater challenges, and Yahoo's HR department is ready to adopt a new approach to evaluate staff efficiency.

According to Ms. Mayer's plan, there will be two new performance evaluations for employees, based on benchmarks and evaluations designed to understand who is the best employee of Yahoo, said the source.

Once it is over, Yahoo will pay a cut to 20% of its employees at the bottom, including a retreat. In the past few years Yahoo has done a lot of layoffs, a big blow to morale, because the layoffs are too sudden.

Mayer wanted to make the process more organized, and in September she talked about performance systems at a company meeting. At the time, she said, employees would be assessed according to the "4C" Standard: Culture (cultrue), corporate goals (company goals), calibration (calibration), Remuneration (compensation)

In the memo, Ms. Mayer told the staff: "To move forward, we have to have both annual and quarterly goals, we can follow this and improve ourselves ... We will delegate the target level to the company's departments, teams, individuals ...

There are also employee evaluation methods at Google, and Mayer is the Google veteran. Google uses a set of data to judge employees ' work.