[silvestrov]

All of this requires the coasting person to be identified correctly every single time.

Some of the team leaders will fire a non-coasting person because that person looked like coasting, while the real coaster looked busy.

And then morale crashes even more, and you start looking over your shoulder, especially if you have a boss that does not understand who really carries the load.

So much management theory supposes all managers are super competent. In reality they are the people version of bad php developers.

[tablespoon]

> All of this requires the coasting person to be identified correctly every single time.

Isn't there a famous story about Bell Labs, where there was this guy who made others signficantly more productive because he asked good questions?

Obvious coaster who should be terminated forthwith!

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I remember the time I really hoped Google would be the Bell Labs of our time. This era seems so distant now...

[correlator]

You're right, but to reason about a hypothetical scenario, we've got to make assumptions. Identifying under-performers with perfect precision is my assumption of a spherical cow! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow