Microsoft announced that is was abandoning its controversial "stack ranking" employee-review and compensation system, sometimes derided as "rank and yank," requiring managers to grade their employees and rank them against one another.

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Microsoft announced in 2013 that it would abandon its "stack ranking" system, which forced managers to rank employees against each other, due to widespread criticism that it fostered a toxic competitive environment.

Microsoft Announced That Is Was Abandoning Its Controversial "Stack Ranking