--- title: Job: Why It's Time to Kill the Performance Review description: Kill the performance review. Also, outlawing street harassment, opening school grounds to summertime play and more. canonical: https://time.com/3925856/why-kill-performance-review/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-18T16:01:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:59.059Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why It's Time to Kill the Performance Review og:description: These are today's best ideas. og:url: https://time.com/3925856/why-kill-performance-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why It's Time to Kill the Performance Review twitter:description: These are today's best ideas. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why It's Time to Kill the Performance Review by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 18, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 18, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s time to kill the performance review.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/time-to-revamp-the-performance-review.html) By Melissa Dahl in the Science of Us **2\.** [**Give communities a valuable summertime resource: Open school grounds for play.**](http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article23920681.html) By the editorial board of the Fresno Bee **3\.** [**Could we outlaw street harassment?**](http://www.vice.com/read/can-laws-stop-men-from-harassing-women-in-public-617) By Daniel Serrano in Vice **4\.** [**We should be able to answer this simple question: How many people die in police custody?**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-16/how-many-die-in-police-custody-we-should-know) By the editorial board of Bloomberg View **5\.** [**Here’s an Internet roadmap for a more equal society. (Hint: it’s got broadband and free wifi everywhere.)**](http://www.democracyjournal.org/37/inequality-and-the-internet.php?page=all) By Ron Klain in Democracy  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3925856/why-kill-performance-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3925856/why-kill-performance-review/"},"headline":"Why It's Time to Kill the Performance Review","datePublished":"2015-06-18T16:01:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:59.059Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3925856/why-kill-performance-review/","keywords":["Innovation","Death","Net neutrality","broadband"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3925856/why-kill-performance-review/","name":"Why It's Time to Kill the Performance Review"}}]}] ```