Pichai reportedly cited the internal “Googlegeist"surveythat the company conducts every year.
In it, employees expressed dissatisfaction with promotional opportunities within the company, among other things.
Pichai said that only 53% of Googlers felt the current system is “time well spent.”
Google did not reply to a request for comment, but linked to awebpageoutlining the changes.
The move follows Meta, which also changed to once-a-year performance reviews last year.
This can range from transformative impact to moderate impact to not enough impact.
Workers can also now transfer to a new role and keep their same level.
Before, they would have had to transfer to the new job to then qualify for a promotion.
There’s been growing discord within Silicon Valley as workers are being told to return to office.
Uber is also seeing a 20% loss in staff, according to a report byBusiness Insider.
And according asurveylast year, 72% of IT workers are considering quitting their jobs within 12 months.
These might be the market forces prompting a change within Google.
