I think the problem is not "rest and vest" but an immense amount of red tape and performative work that just eats time from anything productive. When you have

I think the problem is not "rest and vest" but an immense amount of red tape and performative work that just eats time from anything productive. When you have so manye levels and each level needs to demonstrate impact by creating meetings, documents, reviews etc - everything is roadblocked. Not to say we don't need reviews but people get discouraged when management doesn't actively try to make lives easier. This shows up as "rest and vest" aka no one is going to care about roadblocks if the people above won't care about it.