About the Show

Work is broken, and somebody has to say so on the record. Every week, The Performance Improvement Pod takes one fundamentally broken aspect of work life — the open plan office, reply-all culture, the annual review — and puts it on a formal performance improvement plan. Expectations are documented. Deficiencies are itemized. Progress is reviewed in 30 days. Progress is never made.

New episodes weekly on YouTube, with clips everywhere your HR department wishes they weren't.

Your hosts

Phil Jarrett
Phil Jarrett
Co-host. Has survived eleven reorgs. Files his own PIPs preemptively.
Stephen Duke
Stephen Duke
Co-host. Once ended a meeting on time. Under investigation.

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