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Microsoft Just Killed Its Controversial Stack-Ranking Employee Review System

Jay YarowNov 12, 2013, 23:37 IST

More change is coming to Microsoft.

The company just announced that it's killing the controversial stack-ranking system for employees.

A Microsoft employee told us that while many people will focus on the death of stack-ranking, the bigger story here is that Ballmer is losing power.

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Stack-ranking is Ballmer's system for rating employees. Our source says Lisa Brummel, who runs HR at Microsoft was never terribly fond of stack ranking.

Now that Ballmer is out, so is stack-ranking.

More to come ...