There's a small but growing movement by some big businesses to change the way they do employee performance reviews. Some are de-emphasizing traditional annual reviews and are even (hold your breath) dumping rating systems that can determine who gets a pay raise and who gets fired.

The surprising thing is who's behind the change.

It's not whiny employees.

Read AJC columnist Matt Kempner's take on those beastly reviews in his latest Unofficial Business column on myAJC.com.

And take a moment to have your own say on job performance reviews by voting in our poll.