I have seen both. I worked in environments that are conflict averse. One example: There was an infrastructure team with one person just not doing their work. A

I have seen both. I worked in environments that are conflict averse. One example: There was an infrastructure team with one person just not doing their work. At the end for nearly three years This led to good people from the team leaving as the additional work of these "slackers" had to be done by someone. Neither the direct team lead, nor the manager above them, nor HR after learning from the reasons for people leaving through exit talks did anything. And I also saw situations that was framed as similar, but the situation was very different once the context became known. There was a person seemingly slacking. And objectively that was true. Not visible was the fact that this person was bullied by a coworker, was mentally abused. They tried their best to still deliver, but were just not able and sabotaged as well. Solving this solution was a mess for the people involved. Basically it isn't always as it seems. But also that there sometimes are people slacking.