Their Natural Habitat

Oh-ho, how did I miss this!?

I take gratuitous pleasure in watching the Times furrow its brow at the world of real employment, especially when mediated through the brain of a brow-furrowing academic who has dedicated his life to studying white-collar office chimps, binoculars to weathered skin, hair drawn neatly back from tan forehead, like Jane Goodall. The academic in question proposes that in place of performance reviews, businesses put in place a system of . . . performance reviews. The novelty item is that instead of a mere top-down appraisal, they will be colloquys for the purpose of mutual goal-setting, which is of course the exact fiction currently in place in every company in this great green land.