Cascade goals, run 360 and peer reviews, and rate talent on a 9-Box grid, all on the same employee record your administrator uses for compensation, development and succession decisions.
Workzoom performance management software runs goal-setting, reviews and 9-Box talent grids on the same employee record as HR and payroll, rather than as a standalone review tool. County of Renfrew, an Ontario municipality with more than 900 employees, runs performance management live inside Workzoom alongside recruiting, onboarding and time off. Because reviews sit on the record an administrator already uses for compensation and succession, a completed review is a documented input to the next decision rather than a form that gets filed.
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Reviews and ratings live on the same employee record an administrator uses for compensation requests, development plans, and succession, so a review is a documented input to those decisions rather than a form that gets filed. The administrator makes the call; the data is in one place.
Standardized competency frameworks, structured assessment templates, and cascaded goal tracking help every manager evaluate against the same criteria for the same roles. Trust in the process improves when the criteria are consistent.
When objectives, notes, and ad hoc check-ins are tracked throughout the year, the annual review becomes a summary of documented progress rather than a high-stakes conversation based on memory. Employees and managers both arrive prepared.
Workzoom lets you define top-level business goals and cascade them into department and individual objectives so every employee knows what they are working toward and why it matters. Reviews run on any schedule you set, whether by calendar period, fiscal cycle, or each employee's hire or seniority date, with goals tracked alongside them.
Workzoom makes regular feedback part of the workflow rather than limiting it to annual review cycles. Employees update progress on their objectives. Managers add notes. Disciplinary actions are documented with full history. Everything is tracked in one place.
Workzoom supports 360-degree reviews with peer feedback, self-evaluation, and manager assessment alongside custom assessment questionnaires for different roles. The platform tracks a configurable competency library and certifications across the organization.
Workzoom supports 9-Box and 12-Box evaluations to help leadership see at a glance who is ready for advancement, who needs development support, and where the organization has gaps. The ratings are recorded on the employee record for an administrator to reference in succession and development decisions.
Performance results live on the same employee record as compensation, so an administrator or manager can reference a review when submitting a compensation request. The request is reviewed and approved or denied separately. Performance reviews do not change pay on their own.
Every requirement below is handled by the platform on every pay run, not configured per-customer.
Ontario's Pay Equity Act requires employers to maintain an established pay equity plan on an ongoing basis, not only file it once. Where a compensation request references a performance review, the job and competency data behind that review should reflect the plan currently in force rather than a stale comparison.
Source: Ontario Pay Equity Commission
Ontario pay equity adjustments follow the employer's applicable plan and statutory requirements, not a performance rating. Workzoom keeps review and compensation context on the same employee record, but the employer must assess pay equity obligations and any adjustment separately.
Workzoom records reviews, competency assessments and 9-Box ratings on the employee record. Your team sets access and retention for those personnel records under its applicable policies. CRA's six-year tax-record guidance does not automatically define a retention period for performance reviews.
Source: CRA, scope of tax records
Goals, feedback, review and reference, on one record.
Top-level goals cascade into department and individual objectives, tracked alongside the review cycle you set.
Objective status and manager notes are logged throughout the year, so the annual review summarizes documented progress.
Self-evaluation, manager assessment and peer feedback run from one of six assessment types, scored against a role's competency library.
A completed review sits on the same record as compensation, learning and succession, ready to reference when the administrator makes the next decision.
The story
The story
County of Renfrew, Ontario's largest county by area with more than 900 employees, runs performance management live inside Workzoom. Goals and reviews sit on the same employee record as the recruiting, onboarding, time off and safety training modules the county deployed alongside it, replacing a stitched stack of paper forms and disconnected tools.
Running performance on the same platform as the rest of HR matters for public-sector employers specifically: a review referenced in a compensation request, a succession plan or a pay equity maintenance review is working from the same record rather than a reconciled export.
The story
Workzoom lets an administrator define company goals and cascade them into department and individual objectives, so review cycles run against goals tracked through the year rather than reconstructed from memory. Six assessment types, including 360-degree reviews with peer feedback, self-evaluation and manager assessment, run from one template builder.
Disciplinary actions, ad hoc reviews and manager notes are logged the same way, so a year-end conversation is a summary of documented progress. The 9-Box and 12-Box talent grids plot performance against potential to give leadership a shared view of who is ready, who needs support and where the organization has gaps.
The story
For an Ontario employer subject to the Pay Equity Act, plan maintenance and adjustments are separate obligations from individual performance reviews. Workzoom keeps performance, compensation and pay history on the employee record so an administrator can reference the relevant context, but the employer validates its pay equity obligations and any adjustment under the applicable plan and law.
When evaluating performance management software, test a completed review against a separate compensation request. A review does not change pay on its own. The request needs its own approval, with the review available as documented context rather than a rating that triggers a raise automatically.
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