After years of their firms topping best places to work lists with enviable perks, Canva, Atlassian and their tech peers are using tough rankings and jettisoning the niceties.
Canva’s office in the gentrified inner-city Sydney suburb of Surry Hills has been hailed as one of Australia’s best places to work, with a culture that
His Canva manager spoke to him about his performance from a pre-written script, calling to mind the brutal staff ranking process favoured by the likes of Microsoft and Amazon. Employee perks are also being radically scaled back and the management structured is being flattened out. The gloves are coming off in what could be a harbinger for the broader economy.
Those considered “Missing” are first offered the chance to fight for their jobs, often referred to internally as a PIP, or “performance improvement plan”.PIPs have become commonplace across the tech ecosystem, and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is perhaps the most known for putting about 10 per cent of the company’s gargantuan white-collar workforce through the onerous process each year.
“Canva’s culture has always and intentionally led with kindness and empathy, and this includes how we approach our team’s performance,” Rogerson says.“In fact, the biggest change we’ve seen in our performance cycles is actually the number of people landing in our top-performing categories, and those bouncing back with care and support during lower performance.”
It helps explain why, according to a former employee, Obrecht, in particular, has been vocal about the need to “clean house” and focus on expansion in the US., and 480 lower-level engineering leaders were mostly told to stop managing and start coding again. “The fact that people were doing two hours of work and socialising all day was a zero interest rate phenomenon,” one employee said, acknowledging that many other Atlassian staff worked hard.
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