Every employee is classified and then the bottom 5% of employees are fired. Mayer's QPR is an evaluation of the performance of forced distributions. I say this because in the New York Times article it mentions that managers were “forced to give poor ratings to a certain percentage of their team…” (Goel, 2016). Forced distribution is, as the name suggests, a performance evaluation method that forces managers to rank employees. It appears that employees are ranked from 1 to 5, then those rankings are used to classify the employee into various classifications, including the “bottom 5%. This form of performance evaluation is controversial and strongly disliked by many supervisors, as it may not provide an accurate picture of the employees being evaluated. It lowers morale and causes competition among employees which is counterproductive to a company's culture