Performance Review

3rd-level Analytics & Forecasting

Casting Time: 1 hour, though the outcome was substantively determined before the meeting began
Range/Area: Touch, one employee
Components: V, S, M (a rubric, and a self-assessment the target wrote, largely disregarded)
Duration: 1 year, or until the next Performance Review
Classes: Manager, Director, HR Business Partner

You divine a rating for one creature’s value to the organization over the past review period. The result is rendered with complete confidence and is accurate only by coincidence: it is driven primarily by the organization’s current headcount budget and the caster’s memory of the creature’s most recent, most visible action, rather than by the full period under review.

A creature who receives a low rating becomes Documented (see Animate Legacy System) for the purposes of any future Reduction in Force targeting them specifically, regardless of whether the rating reflected their actual output. Any Discovery saving throw the creature attempts to formally dispute the rating is made with disadvantage, since the rubric used to produce it was never shared in advance.

At Higher Levels. When cast using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you may cast this spell on an entire team simultaneously, forcing a fixed rating distribution across the team regardless of its actual relative performance.

Flavor: “Overall, solid year — there’s room to grow in a few areas, but we’re excited about where this is headed.” — review document, same wording as the previous three years, rating: Meets Some Expectations