Adobe Systems world headquarters in downtown San Jose, California If there’s one thing almost everyone in corporate America can agree on, it’s that traditional once-a-year evaluations are a waste of time. Managers and employees dread the discussions, and plenty of evidence shows they don’t produce anything but a pile of extra paperwork. “I looked at this whole process, back in 2011, and thought, ‘
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