"What is the best workforce performance management solution on the market?"

 Well, not really, but he does address it somewhat today in this post.

By the way, Jason, I haven’t publicly welcomed you to the blogosphere, so let me take this opportunity to do that. Jason’s new HR Analyst Blog is up and running and I really do recommend that everyone take a look. The launch of the blog coincides with Jason taking over the leadership role of the Business and IT Services practice at Yankee Group so congratulations on that as well.   I’ll get a permanent link to the blog on here as soon as I can.

For my money, one of the of the most interesting blogs around is Communication Nation. It’s written by Dave Gray of XPLANE – a company that does some very cool work using visual maps. I’m sure you’ve seen their work around.

Well, Communication Nation took a poll of its readers about communication in their workplaces but what came out of it matters to you (if you’re in HR or run a company, that is). We see a lot of this kind of data come from the usual HR suspects – like the Watson Wyatts of the world – but it’s interesting to see what comes up when you look at things a bit differently – like from the perspective of an information design firm.

 Here are some of their results:

• Half of workers don’t have performance metrics.
• A surprising number of people don’t think their boss is in the loop.
• Most people don’t know what their boss’s job is.
• Many don’t know where they fit in the scheme of things.
• They don’t have much to look foward to.

Read the post at Communication Nation for the whole story. It’s not just HR consultancies and talen management vendors pointing out these problems anymore.