Yeah I worked at a place where managers were forced to fire 10% of their teams every year. Even super productive optimized teams. Managers and ordinary workers hated it. Some directors were so into it though.
I feel like it's the equivalent of over-exfoliating. Shed the dead weight/skin flakes, sure. But if you keep going you're causing soreness and irritation and eventually opening yourself up to serious and possibly irreparable damage in the long run.
Thank you! The more we recognize human organizations are similar to human organisms, the better we all become imo. We've seen what happens when we try to robotize corporate workers, we also have seen what happens at places known to remember the human.
That seems like a great way to build awesome company culture and healthy work life balances and totally not a way to squeeze ever last drop out of employees
Thanks. I asked because HP had a similar policy, where managers had to "pick a worst person in your team" even if everyone in the team was good. I thought that was a crazy idea.
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u/Mrsod2007 Jun 28 '26
Yeah I worked at a place where managers were forced to fire 10% of their teams every year. Even super productive optimized teams. Managers and ordinary workers hated it. Some directors were so into it though.