Atlassian and Canva are shifting their staff culture to embrace tougher performance management rankings like those used by tech giants Amazon and Microsoft.
They came to embody the tech industry cliché of perk-filled work life, and friendly internal cultures that can look almost cult-like to outsiders., offered free drinks and meals, and hosted frequent staff parties.“It’s a really uncharacteristic move by Atlassian,” said one employee of the changed employee appraisals.
“The fact that people were doing two hours of work and socialising all day was a zero interest rate phenomenon,” said the employee, who noted there were many other hard-charging Atlassian workers. Atlassian’s share price is up by about a third this calendar year to $US167, but is still down more than 60 per cent from its COVID-19 stimulus and lockdown-fuelled highs of late 2021.No longer thriving
They said staff met with senior managers to discuss how they had fallen down the categories, with an HR representative then reading out the next steps from a script.
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