This doesn't really touch on the core of the issue, which is business expectations that don't match up with reality.

Business leaders like to project success and promise growth that there is no evidence they will or can achieve, and then put it on workers to deliver that, and when there's no way to achieve the outcome other than to cheat the numbers, the workers will (and will have to).

At some point businesses stopped treating outperforming the previous year's quarter as over-delivering, and made it an expectation, regardless of what is actually doable.