Bingo.
Worse, management will run the A-Team that they're going to send to each problem area like horses until they drop. They'll be forced to go from one crisis to another while the lesser-skilled employees can sit in place, littering all over because someone else is going to clean it up.
Very quickly after that, managers are going to start actively letting things go because they can ask, without any fear of being called out, that the A-Team get sent in to fix all the problems. Voila, it's now corporate policy to reward failure.
Meanwhile, being good at putting out fires only means more fires appear. Only the young and green get suckered into the fire brigade although no one gets fooled twice. They end up having to quit because NO ONE is going to let professional problem solvers leave the crisis management team. The most idealistic were simply the most foolish as they sacrificed real skill building and contribution and instead got chained to a dying cause.
This is nothing new and is a sign of failure, like repairing broken windows on a sinking Titanic. Saw it decades ago. The companies that adopted it didn't just fail a bit, they failed completely and disappeared.
This.
These companies used the pandemic to go on firing sprees and to buy back stocks instead of making their companies stronger, more resilient, and more flexible. Now they will wring everything out of their best and most loyal workers in order to put off the hiring that they need to do.
It isn’t so much they rotate people to different places where they’re needed. They are saying, “Do your job, but also do this job so we don’t have to hire someone else until all the warning lights are flashing red and you’ve figured out that you’re being a sucker.”