If the oil makes the other six figure people deliver six figure work and if without them, they'd only deliver 5 figure work, then no. That money is invested rea

If the oil makes the other six figure people deliver six figure work and if without them, they'd only deliver 5 figure work, then no. That money is invested reasonably. People aren't idiots, they realize when somebody else enables a group of people to excel. If they don't realize that, it's managements job to make sure this is understood. And besides, if employees who are "productive" are pulling 10-14 hours a day, then there is again something going terribly wrong in management to begin with. The real problem of the Microsoft system is setting a fixed value on the number of "cog" and "oil" employees. Different jobs need different people and different people again need different people. If a manager says: "I have 10 units of cog and 5 units of oil people" and is allowed to give out money accordingly, that's great. But if the company says: "Sorry, but you can only have 14 cog and 1 oil" - Suddenly you are forced tell 4 employees who are great workers that they're just lubrication.