>Why? Why set an arbitrary number of people who need to be fired as opposed to grading people to a standard? A person, individually, indeed must always be judg

>Why? Why set an arbitrary number of people who need to be fired as opposed to grading people to a standard? A person, individually, indeed must always be judged by themselves objectively. But people, in aggregate, can generally be understood stochastically. And in any group of people there will always be the obvious slackers who everyone knows aren't pulling their weight. Good management clears these people out rather than allowing them to fester and lower morale. It doesn't matter if it's high paid SWEs or minimum wage workers, the dynamic is the same.