[IKantRead]

I would add that this creates the problem, which I think most tech companies have forgotten about: if you try to attrition out staff and the market is competitive, you'll only attrition out your best employees.

Last place I was at everyone was starting to get really frustrated with the way management was handling projects and all but one person on my team wanted to quit. The problem is that the talent on the team was largely so-so. I was the only one that found work and left, but that only served to further decrease the morale of the remaining members who felt both more trapped and now without coworkers they liked. Across the org I noticed pretty much every other team started to experience similar issues.

[voxtech]

attritioning out staff is one of the dumbest strategies imaginable- it's not a good job when the market isn't competitive either because your highest performers are STILL going to be the first go and you can't even replace them.

It never works but companies always try it and then HAVE to do a shady layoff just to rebalance their teams.