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What Does It Mean When the Answer Is Already There?

Employee accounts of a pre-set self-rating default in performance-review software

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 118 office employees across nine employers about a performance-review app's self-rating slider, which opens every review already set to "meets expectations", finding newer staff treat the default as an instruction and longer-tenured staff treat it as something to correct.

AuthorsSolveig Adeyemi, Dagny Okafor
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.dw0dyp
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_dw0dyp,
  author       = {Solveig Adeyemi and Dagny Okafor},
  title        = {What Does It Mean When the Answer Is Already There?: Employee accounts of a pre-set self-rating default in performance-review software},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.dw0dyp},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-an-interview-study-dw0dyp/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}