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What did you accomplish today?

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Mixing things up this performance review season? You’re not alone. Amazon’s corporate employees were asked, as part of their annual review, to demonstrate the value they bring to the organization by detailing three to five accomplishments from the past year, Business Insider reported.

According to the internal guidelines seen by Business Insider, “Accomplishments are specific projects, goals, initiatives, or process improvements that show the impact of your work. Consider situations where you took risks or innovated, even if it didn’t lead to the results you hoped for.” This marks a shift from previous review cycles, during which employees were asked to respond to “broader questions” about their goals, interests, and achievements. (Amazon declined HR Brew’s request for comment.)

“It makes sense to have people identify things that, ‘I have done that equaled a result,’ and I think that the intent behind it is to allow people to feel like they have some like agency or responsibility for making that happen for themselves,” Wendy Lee Berger, global lead for client service and operations at leadership development and change management consultancy Impact, told HR Brew.

But there needs to be “balance,” she added, between clear job expectations and accomplishments. “If you start with just, ‘these are the metrics I want from you…and this is the only thing,’ that’s heavy handed,” she said.

For more on the pros and cons of this performance management tactic, keep reading here.—MC

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COMPLIANCE

New suit

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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) this week filed a response to a civil lawsuit, Torres v. Society for Human Resource Management, made in a US district court in Virginia on Dec. 6 of last year claiming that the HR industry group violated federal and state laws when it rescinded a candidate’s job offer after the candidate requested her medical service dog work alongside her.

The complaint alleges that SHRM “brazenly disregarded its statutory obligations” related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Virginia Human Rights Act by rescinding an employment offer to a candidate for a senior role in its product management department after the candidate made a request to help manage her Type 1 diabetes.

SHRM, in a 22-page response to the complaint, denied it violated either the ADA or the state statute.

For more on SHRM’s response to the lawsuit, keep reading here.—AD

HR STRATEGY

What’s your goal?

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New year, new goals—and new strategies for setting them? Yes, please.

“I absolutely love goal setting,” Garima Shah, co-founder and president of B2B SaaS platform Biller Genie, said during a recent episode of HR Brew’s People Person podcast. But goal setting isn’t just up to HR leaders, or even people managers. “It’s really about letting the person who’s setting their goal have ownership over it. I think sometimes what we do as people managers and HR leaders is that we set goals for people and we think that we understand what they want and we take the words out of their mouth.”

Shah sat down with Kate Noel, SVP and head of people operations at Morning Brew, to discuss goal-setting frameworks and faux pas.

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WORK PERKS

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: AI led to a net loss of 8% of jobs in the UK, the highest AI-related job cuts of any country, according to one analysis. (Bloomberg)

Quote: “Business doesn’t have to weigh in on politics. However, when there is an important incident in a city, you need to be involved with your people so that they know that you’re a community member just as they are: that you’re empathetic, that you are a leader not just for the numbers, but for the heart.”—Richard Edelman, president and CEO of PR firm Edelman, on MN-based employers deciding to comment or not on the surge of ICE activity in the state (the Wall Street Journal)

Read: It’s not just in the US: Recent college grads in the UK also report having fewer job opportunities, as employers scale back entry level roles amid economic turmoil and AI upheaval. (the Financial Times)

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