Comment by fnordpiglet

Oh. Well, in my experience roughly 5% produce 80% of the value and the rest ensure they can focus on that, save the bottom 25% that are net negatives on productivity. The problem is it’s actually really hard to identify who is in the middle and keeping things going and who is a drag on the organization reliably especially given the middle bulge tends to be fairly quiet and the bottom bulge works hard to appear useful.