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    Appraisals won't boost productivity: Experts

    Synopsis

    "We wasted too much time on doing traditional things. Three years in a row, we did appraisals and in the end of the day it does not boost your morale and productivity."

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    Mohit Saxena, cofounder of InMobi and Ravi Gururaj chairman of Nasscom Product Council speak about the importance of giving employees full freedom in the work places, in the context of InMobi's YaWio initiative, its in house celebration of culture.

    Saxena:

    We wasted too much time on doing traditional things. Three years in a row, we did appraisals and in the end of the day it does not boost your morale and productivity. The directors were tired of doing it; the employees were pretty upset... So we stopped appraisals. We tied it up with growth. Basically, what we say is: if in a hierarchal company it takes 5 years to go from a manager to a director, you can do it in 6 months.

    Gururaj:

    I think what we're seeing today at InMobi is for some it may seem alien. But honestly, when I close my eyes and say where the world is going to be 20 years from now, how the modern corporation is going to look, I think they are trying some of that already.

    Saxena:

    As long as the employee is here, you trust them completely and give them everything.

    Gururaj:

    I like the fact that you are opening it to other startups.We are going to learn from your experiments.
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