Amazon has a complex, opaque system for reviewing employee performance and fixing or ousting underperformers. This chart explains how it all works.

How performance-improvement plans work at Amazon. After a pandemic hiring spree in which the company added hundreds of thousands of corporate and warehouse workers, Amazon is now in retrenchment mode.

In the months before Amazon laid off tens of thousands of workers, it also put a large number of employees on performance improvement plans, known as PIPs, according to a new report.. The details ...