A recurring trend in large and small companies throughout the United States is the abandonment of traditional annual performance review processes that generate a rating. Companies that have done away with performance ratings include Adobe, Motorola Solutions, Expedia and Kelly Services (Pletz 2013) to name a few. In fact, it seems that the formal and documented numerical rating is under attack, giving way to the notion that existing tools and processes used to recommend, calibrate and defend the rating are too cumbersome, time consuming and inflexible.