Microsoft axes Ballmer's controversial employee-ranking system

Microsoft is killing off its controversial stack ranking system today. While it could be viewed as an internal change that won’t affect consumers directly, it will have a broad effect on current and future Microsoft employees that may just shape the future of the company. For years Microsoft has used a technique, stack ranking, that affectively encourages workers to compete against each other rather than a collaborative Microsoft that CEO Steve Ballmer is trying to push ahead of his retirement.

Stack ranking is a process where each business unit's management team has to review employees performance and rank a certain percentage of them as top performers or average and poor performing. Former Microsoft employees have claimed it leads...

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