In their defense, that would likely be a terrible idea. You're presuming the highly paid people are evenly distributed among the company, which is likely not t

In their defense, that would likely be a terrible idea. You're presuming the highly paid people are evenly distributed among the company, which is likely not true. Just one example, you would expect that given their tenure, they would be higher up the command chain. Doing that is going to gut your management. You could end up firing some people's entire report chain. At the very least, it would be sane to make sure that you don't accidentally fire entire teams (assuming you still need whatever function the team provided).