.) At Amazon, according to the New York Times, promising job candidates are especially precious because the company has many open positions. To get new team members, one veteran told the Times, sometimes "you drown someone in the deep end of the pool," then take his or her subordinates. In other words, you use the rank and yank system to sabotage another supervisor and take his/her team.

Does this economic dynamic of the need for promising employees add to or detract from the ethical justification for rank and yank?