[JoshTriplett]

It's a really bad solution to that: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/the-data-is-in-return-to...

You end up losing your higher performers, because they have many alternatives, and keeping the people who have fewer options.

[smt88]

My impression as a longtime user of AWS is that they don't care to retain competent people. They seem to have a "throw more bodies at it" attitude toward work.

[chii]

unless you know you don't actually need those higher performers (presumably an assumption the bean counters have). People who have fewer options then would necessarily not going to ask for pay rises too. Therefore, you double whammy get both cheaper workers, as well as more obedient ones.