“Coworkers who don’t want to work together”… Improve the evaluation items of the Kakao controversy

Input 2021.03.02 18:02

Kakao, who has been controversial, improves the evaluation items through a personnel evaluation method that selects’colleagues who do not want to work together’.

Kakao held an open talk (conference) for all employees at the headquarters for about 2 hours starting at 10:30 am on the 2nd. Co-CEOs Yeo Min-soo and Cho Soo-yong and personnel in charge of personnel organization attended, and the first 100 general employees participated in the video conference method. The meeting was broadcast live on Kakao TV for all executives and employees to see, and we talked about overall company operations, including personnel evaluation methods.

An official at Kakao said, “It was a place to listen to free and honest opinions on various topics such as evaluation system, compensation, organizational culture, and bullying in the workplace.” I shared the position,” he said.

The official said, “We will improve the way of expression to give the crew (members) a sense of psychological stability and positive recognition while maintaining the merits of peer/upgrade evaluation.” “We plan to improve the points where negative opinions came out, such as that.”

Kakao plans to operate a discussion table to fully reflect the opinions of employees and conduct a separate survey. In particular, it plans to listen directly to the voices of employees even on items that were controversial in the survey.

In recent years, inside and outside Kakao, internal bullying and controversy over personnel evaluation arose. The first controversy arose when a person believed to be an employee posted a suicide note on the worker community’blind’. It is alleged that there is bullying in the workplace.

This article was immediately deleted by the author, but with this incident, a dissatisfaction about Kakao’s personnel evaluation was followed up and controversy spread. At Kakao, employees answer the question of’Would you like to work with this person?’

Criticism has also been raised for this as “the internal culture of Kakao is cruel.” In response, Kakao founder Kim Beom-soo, chairman of the board of directors, said at a conference on the 25th of last month, “There should never be an act of ignoring or harassing anyone in Kakao.”