Call it pandemic syndrome, but the not-so-new virtual office environment is forcing agencies to rethink and reimagine yet another aspect of the workplace: performance management.
Gone are the days where most agency managers exchange performance plans and feedback on paper.
Supervisors are still conducting those annual performance appraisals and ratings, but employees need regular, consistent feedback now perhaps more than ever before, said Rebecca Ayers, manager of the Office of Personnel Management’s fee-for-service USA Performance tool.
And since managers can no longer simply glance over their shoulders and check what their employees are looking at their computer screens, it means they must use specific outcomes as a benchmark of their workers’ performance.
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