Jack Welsh was doing this during his time at GE. The bottom 10% of the workforce would be let go every year. It's simply an alternative employment strategy to

Jack Welsh was doing this during his time at GE. The bottom 10% of the workforce would be let go every year. It's simply an alternative employment strategy to Google's attempts at early optimization (making it hard as hell to get in) which they even concede produces a lot of false negatives.