Performance Improvement Plan Guide: How To Write, Benefits + Tips

If a new law meant you could never hire anyone new, would that affect how
you approached performance improvement plans (PIPs)? You’d probably look at
performance improvement plans as tools to help employees be happy, engaged,
and productive, and not as documentation for an upcoming termination. (They
can and should be used for terminations as well, but their primary purpose
should be retention.)

If you want to focus on improving performance, it may be time to revise and
update your performance improvement plans. Here’s why they are essential.