Is it better to work more around appraisal time?

In startup-like places where things are unorganised, recency bias does play a role both ways; so if your recent performance has been flickery you could lose out and vice-versa. . In giant corporates historical tracking could be very precise, so this will not have such a great impact but considering human factor it'll likely still have little impact.

Im put in pip because i didnt work 1 properly due to no work during appraisal month