Weren't we supposed to have a Focal replacement in place this year (or actually already last year)? What happened to that? My manager did the same old Focal with me this year, and when I asked him about the new process, he just shrugged and said "Some business units are using it already. That's all I know."
So is there anyone who is using that Focal successor already? What is it like? Or is everyone using it, and we're the only ones left out?
HR piloted a new process which included focus on team goals. However in 2016 with ACT, there were lots of issues with employees filing complaints. BK concluded that Intel management lacked manager skills. Instead of rolling out the new focal process as planned, he rolled out mandatory training for managers. The roll out of manager training started in 2017. Until BK feels that Intel managers have better management skills, the new focal process is on hold.
Doesn’t matter, eventually when a max exit of key employees triggers dislike of focal rating as well as the mistrust of management something will be done. This company is full of weird and dated values
Can’t be that many “Old-timers” left can there?
Or until stock goes to 3.32 cents a share, might happen soon since all the talent is gone
I am in HR, but not closely involved with Focal. It's my understanding that because most of our peer companies have moved away from Focal-type performance processes, Richard Taylor wanted to do so as well. He was met with resistance, but was able to get the okay for HR to pilot a new process. That happened for a couple of years and was viewed very positively, but then Richard left, and the old-school Focal process was brought back even for HR this year. I imagine it will remain in place until old-timers who subscribe to their outmoded HR ideologies retire.
All the commentators saying HR are useless are missing one fundamental point.
HR’s primary role is to protect the company from its employees.
The current way to protect Intel is to shed expense so that the bottom line resembles growth.
In that role it is arguable that HR are doing very well. Why else would it’s leader be promo’d?
I also completely missed the fact that the new process is dead. And I am a manager. Go figure. And yes, like others here, I stopped attending the BUMs. Useless waste of time to listen to someone with zero presentation skills speak about strategies that will be obsolete half a year later. Like the new Focal process.
Who cares if there is a 'new process"? What can new formatting possibly do for people mgmt wants to get rid of? These reviews all go to the same place. If your mgr does not represent your story well to other mgrs in that organization, you will be rated lower against your peers. Very simple. It's been this way for 50 years.
Doesn't Intel HR have a sizable hiring organization? How else do they practice age discrimination by firing masters in computer science while simultaneously hiring thousands of young college graduates with masters in computer science?
@1ixn LOL. Yes, that is what I always thought HR people were doing most of the time: surfing the web. At least here in Germany, HR is a useless money drain. I mean, what do they actually do? Staffing/hiring? Nope! Outsourced (to Czech Republic, I believe). Joining interviews? Nope. They stopped doing that a long time ago. Direct involvement with employees? Nope. Many people don‘t even know the name of their HR representative. Assisting and reviewing Focal? Nope. Managers get a one-hour „training“ at the beginning of the Focal period, that‘s it. Nobody really reviews the stuff managers enter into the tool.
And when you need them, where are they? When someone leaves the company, there is a legal obligation in Germany to provide them with a letter of recommendation. It shouldn‘t take longer than a couple of weeks. At Intel Germany, it always takes months even after the manager provided all the relevant info. Months! For a process that is probably nearly completely automated. I am in touch with quite a few former Intel employees. All of them had to remind HR to get their letter of recommendation. Some had to do so twice. For something that the company is legally obliged to provide as quickly as reasonably possible!
So someone explain to me what the FFF Intel HR actually does. Perhaps an HR rep here who wants to argue against the claim that HR is useless? An HR rep here who wants to argue against the claim that HR is a money drain that could be eliminated without losing anything?
Oh and let‘s not forget the unethical behaviour of HR representatives during ACT. And I am not talking about firing people. I am talking about corrective action plans forced onto managers by HR that included a fixed date on which the employee in question would fail the CAP so that they could get fired. I am not making this sh-- up. I saw the „Do not forward“ emails by HR with the detailed timelines. Uh... wait... did I say unethical? I meant illegal. How about that, HR?
BK got bored and canned it, same as all the new initiatives.
There is a new TOOL. Looks like the old tool. Same old same old nothing changed
There was only a new process planned when they were worried about the California employment law class actions.
Something to plead in mitigation. Nothing more.
BK says a lot of things that don't become true. If you don't know you are too dumb to get anything food from focal.
Not getting the new process up and running is not BK‘s failure. It‘s HR‘s failure. If you have a large organization where people spend 90% of their time drinking coffee, chatting and surfing the web, then what do you expect?
I don‘t join the BUMs, so that is apparently how I missed that info.
I stopped going to the BUMs, when a few years ago, they had that „Get your bum to the BUM“ slogan. Most retarded thing I ever heard in my life. Since then, I have been boycotting the BUMs.
lol there is no new focal, keep dreamin'.
Yes, BK said that, 😐 😐 😐 PUBLICLY in last year's BUM !
Really? BK said that? Publically? Managers here are also telling us that the new process is being trialled everywhere but here.
BK said a while ago that the new process was cancelled and they will continue normal focal
You're history pal. Start packing your bags.
Went to the same place most of BK's great ideas go. Once the talking is done and reality hits its off to the bit bucket with the idea and any employees still working on it.
We were told there isn’t a new process and likely won’t be??