Performance, Reimagined
Windmill is the first performance management system that does the work for you. Stop wasting your team's time filling out forms and focus on what matters - running your team.
The Broken State of Performance Reviews
Traditional performance reviews are outdated, ineffective, and universally despised. It's time for a change.
Recency Bias
Performance reviews often emphasize recent events, overlooking long-term contributions and growth. This skews evaluations and fails to capture an employee's true value over time.
Subjective Data
Reviews frequently rely on subjective opinions rather than objective data, leading to inconsistent and unfair assessments across teams and individuals.
Time-Consuming Process
The traditional review process is incredibly time-consuming for both managers and employees, taking away valuable hours that could be spent on actual work and improvement.
Lack of Consistency
Annual or bi-annual reviews create long gaps between feedback sessions, making it difficult for employees to make timely improvements or course corrections in their work.
Office Politics
The review process can be influenced by office politics and personal relationships, overshadowing actual performance and creating an unfair playing field.
Limited Actionability
Many performance reviews end with vague feedback or goals, leaving employees unsure of how to practically improve or advance in their roles, reducing the overall effectiveness of the process.
Disconnected from Work Systems
Performance review systems are often separate from the tools and platforms where actual work happens, leading to a disconnect between daily contributions and performance evaluations.
Outdated Manual Process
Traditional reviews rely on manual data entry and subjective recall, ignoring the wealth of digital data available about how employees work, collaborate, and perform in real-time.