The annual appraisal is 50 years out of date

46% of British employees claim to have never participated in a high-quality conversation about their career, a new study shows.

In what has been branded a “wake-up call” for employers, most companies are relying on annual appraisals to gauge the satisfaction of workers - a practice which, according to Right Management’s Global Career Conversation Study, is 50 years out of date.

The survey examined the views of 4,402 global employees aged between 25 and 55 to understand the extent to which employers are helping them manage their careers. It found that less than a third (31%) feel confident enough in their ability to initiate a conversation outside of annual performance reviews.

Ian Symes, Managing Director at Right Management, told HR Grapevine that the practice of annual reviews is broken.