Non-ending list

Per 9 Things You Should Never Ask Employees to Do, I only encountered "Ask employees to evaluate themselves".
Although I'm one of the employees been asked, should I say I'm very lucky? :)

But there is also 9 Ways to Ruin a Performance Review, from the same author.
I won't be surprised there is another 9-whatevers.

You just cannot check on a non-ending list.

Benchmark for review and reward

Quoted from a comment on Hacker News:

One reason for this is that many companies review and reward employees based on their "influence" or "visibility" -- what better way to maximize both than be in the air-traffic controller role?

So, the honest work is just being avoided.