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perhaps this 5% is employees who were documented underperforming, breaking rules, getting into conflicts, gaming at work, etc. ehe company has every right to let them go without severance. usually referred to as "regretted attrition" which is ironic in this case because GM doesn't regret them leaving in the slightest.

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Pitting your employees in a hunger games-esque charade is sure to have unintended consequences.

Surely, if I was an employee here, self-preservation would be of the utmost importance. If I fix something to make my job easier, I will keep it to myself. If I have the opportunity to sabotage a teammate, I would. If I can lie easily, I will.

And in my experience you run out of those individuals rather quickly and start cutting well-intended employees after only a few years. After that, you start firing hard working individuals who can’t or won’t play the game.

After that, you’re selecting for corporate psychopaths.

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