work goals

every year we need to submit annual goals at my job. hr feels it increases productivity and moral. everyone else feels it decreases both. this year again, we received instruction to come up with at least two goals that reduce implementation or support time. what have we been doing so far? i think at this point most of us are busy creating this robot tool that is suppose to reduce everyone’s time. so far it’s consuming everyone’s time. eventually this robot thingy will need more time from everyone to configure and support than the time it takes to avoid the tool altogether. and that is the good thing, because otherwise it would make us be out of job. yes, this seems to be the goal hr has. it makes perfect sense – all departments fulfill the goals that reduce time --> given the goals work, there is less time needed to do the job --> less people needed to do the job --> less people at the company = less work for hr. i wonder if they realize their brilliance. there is one glitch though, less people at the company should require less people at hr too. they better hope we don’t come up with real good goals.