Comment Organizations suboptimize to meet new metrics (Score 5, Informative) 61
Studies show it takes 30 days for employees suboptimize efforts to adjust output to get results that fit new performance metrics.
Its not just that THIS performance metric was pants-on-head stupid. Its the entire idea that a new performance metric will accomplish anything other than employees tailoring efforts to meet that new metric at the expense of job performance and meeting actual organizational goals.