The challenge is that a high performing, badly behaving person can be both critical to the company and harmful to the others. Some people are so toxic they actu

The challenge is that a high performing, badly behaving person can be both critical to the company and harmful to the others. Some people are so toxic they actually bring the aggregate performance down despite high individual performance. So that is short form for, you can't be toxic regardless of your performance. In practice, the true work psychopaths can work around a policy like that, and people with bad social skills tend to get punished unfairly by comparison.