In every workplace I've been, I end up thinking 50% of people here could be gone tomorrow and nothing would change.
But the real trick is filtering precisely the 50% you want.
Who gets to determine the bottom 50th percentile?
it doesn't really matter as long as you retain the top 10% who do 90% of the work.
I think you glossed over the question
Generally, the answer is management via performance reviews.
So current management, who had proven incapable of running a business, will be trusted to ignore past political games and just retain talent? That's certainly a take
I am yet to see a round of "cut the bottom 10%" that didn't end up also cutting a bunch of top 5% staff.
> it doesn't really matter as long as you retain the top 10% who do 90% of the work.
This isn't SW. Those ratios don't exist in the HW world.
(And to be frank, it's a myth in SW too).
They literally cannot have a culture that encourages the now-traditional job hopping that is so pervasive in American business culture. They can't afford it.