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January 4th, 2006

No, there aren’t any robots

Dubs has it right – there aren’t really any robots hiding in our software, manipulating our performance reviews and messing with your compensation – despite the word and its implications being bandied about recently. Just a way for managers to select from recommended text and then, ideally, customize it to the particular situation and employee (more explanation here). Dubs also coins a good term: "automated content support."  I like it.

Follow the trail at Dubs’ blog, at our blog, at Regina’s Blog, and this guy’s blog

If you’ll read into the comments at Regina’s blog, you’ll see I promised a demo of the automated content support functionality for the bloggers and blog readers out there. I wasn’t kidding. I’m working on putting it together right now – more info to come.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 at 3:25 pm and is filed under News & Technology, Talent & Performance Management. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “No, there aren’t any robots”

  1. doubledubs Says:

    I actually thought it somewhat amusing that this case study generated that much debate. Being a person who has used the TMS and performance systems as a HR practitioner and a consultant, those few lines didn’t trigger any red flags in my mind. My explanation in my post was genuine – your “robot” is just “content support.”

    The problem is that if people stopped reading there, they missed the next few paragraphs about visibility upwards for the employees. This is where the value of the system really comes into play.

    Thanks for naming me. If I ever am linked as “this guy’s blog” I’m coming after you!!! :-D

    -Dubs

  2. regina Says:

    This guys blog is just too funny!! But anyway, I agree when it is too hard to really find out who is writing the blog…he/she kind of deserves it.

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