As long as you don't remove it, you haven't made performance worse, but you may not have made it better either, and you have probably done damage to intrinsic m

As long as you don't remove it, you haven't made performance worse, but you may not have made it better either, and you have probably done damage to intrinsic motivation. For sales, this may be fine, to the extent that no one has intrinsic motivation for sales, and the countervailing forces of how sales folks are usually compensated, but fixed salaries are probably better for motivation, but maybe not for your hiring/cash flow.