- Make employees scared to point out flaws.

- Make employees less engaged in the success of the company.

- Encurrage employees to hide or mask issues.

- Encurrage employees to pretend to be more productive than they are.

- Make employees mentally and physically less healthy.

- Make employees shy away from taking on more responsibility or tasks.

- Make employees less happy to train up new hires in their work.

Yes. Gains. All those gains. I can only see gains here.

> I can only see gains here.

All of your points are correct. But so many companies/employers keep abusing this power that I have to assume they see some value. Some of the things you mentioned are even short term gains for some companies. For some of Boeing’s execs, employees hiding flaws was a win until it wasn’t and it became someone else’s problem.

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