Managers and employees use ChatGPT to write performance reviews.
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Performance reviews can get you a raise or lead to a layoff – and both managers and employees turn to ChatGPT to write them.
Why it matters: The delicate task of writing your own self-evaluation or reviewing the work of an employee who reports to you has become so daunting or monotonous that some prefer to delegate it to artificial intelligence.
What's happening: It's been more than a year since ChatGPT became known to everyone and it seems that people are increasingly using it for critical tasks of various nature.
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- If you ask your manager friends, you'll probably find that at least one has followed this method for writing employee evaluations.
- A quick search on X, LinkedIn, or Reddit will show you plenty of people bragging about it.
A former Dropbox executive (who asked to remain anonymous) says she used ChatGPT to help write performance reviews because, as she tells Axios, the review process at big tech companies can be “exhausting,” “tedious,” and “bureaucratic.”
- She also used it to write her self-evaluations, “especially when I know my manager is busy, away from the daily grind, and I rate my performance as 'meets expectations,'” she added.
- Lee Gonzales, director of engineering at BetterUp, uses ChatGPT to write performance reviews and also shares his own performance review guides for ChatGPT on LinkedIn.
- Stephen Lytle, assistant vice president at Evara Health, imports his own notes from ChatGPT, along with the person’s self-assessment and feedback he’s received from others. And then he tells ChatGPT to “compose this into an effective assessment.”
- Nick, a product manager at a tech company who asked not to be named, told Axios that he views performance reviews as “forced” and uses ChatGPT to write them, as he doesn’t view them as something that affects his pay or opportunity for promotion.
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- Gonzales told Axios that he takes extensive notes from one-on-one meetings throughout the year and then imports them into the enterprise version of ChatGPT to get what he calls “an initial draft” of a performance review. He then edits it.
The bottom line is: If you use creative TA to produce your performance review (or any content), don't expect to go unnoticed.
- Gonzales told Axios that he can identify content written by ChatGPT across LinkedIn, blogs, and magazines.
- “Not everyone has a college degree. Not everyone has a high school degree, let alone a doctorate. Not everyone is taught how to write annual reviews,” says Lytle.
Source of information: axios.com
