We do PMPs at my work. We don't give a fuck about PMPs at my work. One person fills it out and then we all moderately change it and consider the review complete. It's a great place to work, and I love my bosses because they, perhaps due to being foreigners, perhaps because they're great people and understand logic, don't subscribe the the US corporate culture of 'always busy', they prefer the 'it got done, it got done well, that's what matters'.

Additionally, I think the corporate culture of 'always busy' is more detrimental to productivity and results than anything. It encourages you to work less so you always have something to do, and discourages you from taking time to explore other things that would bring new ideas into the workplace. It always reinforces the hierarchy or a workplace. You can never be close to your bosses in that environment because instead of working with them and sharing ideas as equals, you feel you are entirely a subordinate and they are the master and you should feel fear towards them and lie as much as possible for the appearance of productivity. And it's silly, because everyone at every level knows it's all bullshitting.

I picked up a second job for the summer. I work in tech, so it's very much white collar, and I've been there for a while, but I used to work in the service industry, for years, dealing with the worst kinds of rich people, so I thought I'd have no problem slipping back into it. I quit last week. It was a restaurant and I was to be a bartender, but I couldn't handle the corporate feel of the company. I couldn't stand the ridiculous, over-the-top restrictions, the way they want you to hold your shoulders, the little tiny things that make no difference in experience for the customer, especially when it intentionally interferes with my ability to connect to guests and cultivate their experience, but instead shoves it into a box, that if I go outside, I'm reprimanded for. On top of that, there were non-stop exams that added no value to the employee or the employer, and everyone was aware and open about that fact. I understand having your way of doing things, but that level of 'locked-down, always busy no matter what, stop spending time with the customers' kills everything that's good about working with people.