OVERVIEW
Connect every step of performance management
Align on employee goals and OKRs
Assign, share, and track goals across your company. Surface individuals’ goal progress in performance reviews.
Set up evaluations in minutes
Customizable performance review cycles so you can run them exactly the way you want, in a fraction of the time it takes other systems.
Calibrate ratings and raises
Collaborate on ratings, promotions, and raises. Effortlessly sync approved changes to payroll.
Identify performance trends
Report on performance alongside all your employee data to unlock deeper, more impactful insights.
goals & OKRS
Unite your teams around the right goals
Align your org with objectives that are ownable, trackable, and measurable.
Surface relevant goals to the right people
Instantly assign everyone the right goals, based on their department, team, or custom Supergroups.
Keep your entire org accountable
Practice goal setting and show everyone which goals they're responsible for. Surface goal progress in performance reviews.
Track progress in real time
Review goals by status, owner, and more, to quickly identify places where you need to step in.
REVIEW CYCLES
Launch the perfect review cycle in minutes
By tapping into your employee data, Rippling gives your performance review process a level of configurability no other system can touch—in a fraction of the setup time.
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Configure your review cycle
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Configure your permissions
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Configure your questions
Calibration
Calibrate performance ratings with less effort
How do you ensure performance assessments are consistent and fair? Only Rippling has the power to let you compare and calibrate ratings across any employee data.
Share confidential information securely
Easily share scores and compensation recommendations with managers and then collaborate on a final score.
Make your decisions more data-driven
Pull in any employee data and relevant metrics, like tenure or compa-ratio, to keep your calibration decisions data-driven and holistic.
Eliminate bias from the equation
Customize calibration groups to ensure everyone is rated on the same scale and that managers stay objective.
MERIT CYCLES
Manage compensation, not spreadsheets
Compensation planning is too important to fragment across systems and spreadsheets. Rippling brings everything related to compensation onto one unified platform.
BUDGET ALLOCATION
Assign merit guidelines to performance ratings
Rippling automatically advises managers on how to allocate their team budget for merit increases based on admin settings.
approvals
Automate time-consuming approval processes
Compensation changes automatically follow your company’s existing approval chains. Rippling flags issues like over-budget managers for quick review.
PAYROLL
Push compensation changes directly to payroll
Updating multiple people’s compensation after a cycle is a slow and error-prone process. With Rippling, you can effortlessly sync compensation changes to Payroll.
CUSTOM REPORTING
See performance trends in greater detail
Built different
Analyze, automate, and orchestrate anything
Most "all-in-one" software consists of acquired systems. These modules are disconnected, so your business data is, too. Rippling takes a platform approach, building products on a single source of truth for all the business data related to employees. This rich, flexible data source unlocks a powerful set of capabilities.
Permissions
Automatically govern what each person in your company can see, do, and access.
Policies
Build custom policies that enforce your business’s unique rules and procedures.
Workflows
Automate virtually anything with hyper-custom triggers and advanced workflow actions.
Analytics
Make better decisions faster with real-time, unified data in an easy-to-use report builder.
END TO END PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Everything you need to develop and retain talent
Continuous feedback
Schedule feedback at whatever interval makes sense for your organization—monthly, quarterly, annually, or on a custom cadence.
Employee experience
Let employees view and revisit feedback in the same system they use on a daily basis instead of forcing them to sign in to another system.
Structured conversations
Equip managers with structured templates to guide their performance conversations with direct reports.
Customized feedback forms
Measure what’s most important for your org by customizing review criteria—or kickstart your cycle using one of Rippling’s templates.
360-degree feedback
Give employees the power to nominate their peer reviewers—and managers the ability to approve or counter-propose reviewers.
Development plans
Help low-performers get back on track by creating a development plan and setting a cadence for progress check-ins.
PDF packets
Revisit feedback easily with PDFs that snapshot the review cycle—or simply log in to the Rippling dashboard to access past cycles.
One-click reminders
Finish your cycle in a timely manner by quickly spotting stragglers and alerting them to finish their reviews.
Set continuous feedback (and continuous improvement) in motion
Automate continuous performance management based on the employee data or events of your choosing—like 30-60-90 check-ins to help new hires ramp.
Ensure quality feedback during manager changes
Build policies defining who reviews employees with recently changed managers. Assign skip-level managers, historical managers, and more.
FAQs
What is performance management?
Performance management is a process that involves streamlining performance and compensation reviews, from comprehensive annual reviews to light one-off feedback. The performance management process allows users to identify top performers and provides leaders with insights to drive continuous positive performance.
What is a performance management system?
A performance management system is a process that allows for a streamlined performance and compensation review process. This includes comprehensive annual reviews, light one-off feedback, and the identification of top performers.
Why is employee performance management important?
Employee performance management is important because it allows organizations to effectively evaluate and improve the performance of their employees. It provides a structured approach to setting expectations, assessing progress, and providing feedback to employees. Regular performance evaluations also help in identifying top performers, fostering continuous performance improvement, and driving employee engagement.
What features should I look for to find the best performance management software?
When searching for the best performance management software, prioritize user-friendly systems that have robust goal setting, feedback, and reporting capabilities—and ones that can integrate seamlessly with other HR systems. Fully customizable performance management tools ensure you can adjust to your company’s schedule, goals, and needs.
See Rippling in action
Rippling is a single platform that can help your business manage all of its employee development, data, and operations, no matter its size.
