A tactic for layoffs? | TikTok encourages bosses to give out lower employee review scores

TikTok has told its managers to purposefully assign lower marks in performance reviews to its staff, a recent article from The Wall Street Journal reported.

The short-clip app said the move was intended to enforce a more fair and balanced performance distribution across its workforce.

Yet many fear this could be an early sign of potential layoffs to come, as TikTok may be lowering its performance threshold to justify sacking some of its 130,000-employee strong workforce.

According to the article, managers were told by the business’ managing teams and HR in the US, Singapore and China to assign more performance assessments towards the lower end of its bell-curve rating system.