Ain’t capitalism great?
I worked at several companies that regularly did this across the board. We didn’t need robots. In one technology development company, managers used scoresheets with a lot of metrics to stack-rank every employee in our division on overall performance. If you were in the bottom 10%, you were done for. If you were in the bottom 10% to 25% group, you’d better be polishing up your resume.
In other companies where I led Sales Operations, sales people were ranked every day on a leaderboard which aggregated five to ten performance metrics. Low performers left all the time, voluntarily or not.
If you are in business and NOT doing this, you won’t be in business long. How else would you build a high performance organization?
Ain’t capitalism great?