> In Sweden this is effectively the only way you can make the "stack ranking": you move a bunch of workers to a special branch or factory. Stack ranking is one

> In Sweden this is effectively the only way you can make the "stack ranking": you move a bunch of workers to a special branch or factory. Stack ranking is one of the worst ideas to ever hit the corporate world, and is, in general, a sign that I probably don't want to work (as an employee, at any rate) for that organization. Collaboration is so fundamental to software development, or any creative endeavor. Stack ranking, however, encourages heavy amounts of back-stabbing political competition. Even if the team performs well ahead of expectations, the bottom 20% of the team will still face consequences for the "underperformance". This is the same sort of bullshit that killed Sears.