Overview
- Employees are instructed to cite concrete projects, goals, initiatives or process improvements, including examples that involved risks or innovations that did not succeed.
- Workers must also outline next steps for growth, with managers weighing submissions alongside peer feedback, Leadership Principles and role skills to assign an Overall Value rating that drives compensation.
- Internal guidance reported by Business Insider marks the first explicit formalization of Forte around individual accomplishments after earlier, broader self-reflections.
- Coverage notes the updated review framework does not by itself indicate layoffs, and Amazon declined to comment on the new guidance.
- The change reflects CEO Andy Jassy’s productivity-focused management approach following return-to-office rules, compensation tweaks and 2025 corporate job cuts, mirroring stricter performance expectations across Big Tech.