Thinking that people in charge can correctly identify the bottom/top X% of their employees on some sort of metric is fooling oneself into believing those in pow

Thinking that people in charge can correctly identify the bottom/top X% of their employees on some sort of metric is fooling oneself into believing those in power are better than those below them. It’s going to be 10% of _something_. One episode of Suits comes to mind. Let’s be honest, firing people reduces cost, because humans are expensive, and executive and ownership class want to keep costs down and profits up. That’s it. Framing the narrative in terms of firing the worst performing employees puts the blame on individuals. In a health company, of course if you can’t perform the duties of the job you should be helped to get to that point (if employer is nice) and let go if you eventually can’t. A firing of 100s of 1000s of people at once is a failure from the top in terms of planning.