Work Life

Performance Review Coming Up? Take These Lessons from Squid Game

And Try Not to Get Eliminated

Stewart Wolfe
13 min readDec 3, 2021

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“If you follow the rules, you can leave this place safely with the money we promised.” — unnamed guard

While watching Squid Game, I couldn’t help but draw some parallels between the drama I was watching play out on screen and the annual managerial ceremony that is performance reviews, which for most of us in the corporate game…

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Stewart Wolfe

Corporate L&D pro and workplace tech junkie writing about people and performance in the weird world of work