I want to first comment on the posts I have seen, then your article.

First, I understand what everyone is saying (so far) about this leading to lower output, and about testing. I have no argument with these comments at all.

As a confirmation of how this works, I once worked with someone who worked for "the phone company" writing code. Allegedly he would write about 10 lines of code per year or month, I don't recall which. Whatever it was, it was extremely low. He explained that the review process was so extensive, it would take 6 months for any changes to get approved! Sounds wrong, until you think about the impact of bringing down the phone system in the country. Even now with a few companies running it instead of just one like it was decades ago, I would think a change in one could cause issues in another company pretty easily. Right or wrong, when there are incentives to do things perfectly, and punishment for any errors, the quantity of the output will go down significantly.

Second, I like the idea of holding people accountable for their quality. Won't happen. Companies don't want to do so. There are a million reasons, a few of them are:

If you hold the worker responsible, do you hold the CEO responsible?

Other managers?

Since managers are tasked with far more work than they should be, they don't have time to look at who is at fault, and would simply blame the easiest scape goat.

Since employees would know about it, they would do everything they could to "hide" in the system. Wait, that happens now!

Unfair managers would find a way to blame those employees they don't like.

One of the biggest issues in the workplace today is that the best employees are not rewarded, the worst employees get the same raises, bonuses as everyone else. The reason is companies are afraid of lawsuits and don't want to manage their workforce. They may claim they do, evidence shows not.

So I am in favor of doing so, as soon as someone comes up with a fair way to evaluate quality, that also includes all other factors about what is required of an employee, and holds managers accountable for NOT doing their job, with penalties at least as harsh as those for non managers.