Re:
> As some of you probably know, HP historically has ranked employees into
> five performance bands (PRB1-5). The bands still exist; what has changed
> is that the lowest band is *required* to contain 5%, where before it could
> go empty. The problem is that the requirements for each band are clearly
> defined - and now people are being forced into places where they don't
> fit, so to speak.

Changed?
It's been required from time-to-time over the past 20 years.  I remember
when Howard Smith (lab manager of 3000 lab circa 1983) got in trouble for
not doing this.

I always thought that the enforced distribution was HP's way of encouraging
good ... but poorly ranked ... people to move to other divisions in HP
(where they might be ranked higher), as well as a way to encourage bad
employees to leave.

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