If your employer wants to fire you, then they’re going to fire you. The PIP is a miserable process, but there’s not typically a nice way to be fired. The PIP gives you a decent opportunity to make other plans at least.
Exactly, if I were given PIP then first thing I start doing is using company time to upskill myself.
I haven't seen many cases but PIP were 100% leading to firing. Also my corpo didn't respond to work reference bar HR letter stating you worked for them.
So in my experience PIP is a sentence but you will face no consequence for not working.
(In two cases the PIP were purely because manager didn't like the guy and just wanted them gone)
Fired, but with extra steps.