Kind of. Proper word is decimation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)

Romans knew what they are doing!

Yeah I don’t know, this isn’t to vouch for Amazon’s “planned attrition” quota at all but it seems regular “trimming of under performers” is better than “all at once witch hunt”. If I think about the “under performers” at my workplace I wish they were gone long ago (from a work standpoint, this isn’t a personal stab). But all of the above creates a pretty hostile work environment, probably. And to be a contrarian I have also worked at a place (non eng) that did maintain public (but anonymous) employee rankings (based on “customer” feedback [kind of complicated to explain in brief])- it was still a decent place to work. When it comes to this topic I relate to academic GPA - it’s a flawed and imperfect system but from a business/Org perspective what other options are there? I wouldn’t want to work in that environment myself but what do workers at Meta or Amzn expect?

Possibly. Maybe managers could shield X% of their reports, and the remaining Y% would be selected from randomly.

It's still unfair, but doesn't disproportionately affect a specific group as much.