“We came to a fairly quick decision that we would abolish the performance review, which meant we would no longer have a one-time-of-the-year formal written review,” says Morris. “What’s more, we would abolish performance rankings and levels in order to move away from people feeling like they were labeled.” In place of the traditional performance review, Adobe introduced The Check-In—an informal system of ongoing, real-time feedback—in the summer of 2012.112
