[ssimpson]

I had a colleague who had recently become a manager ask me "so wait, people always have to be growing and advancing? What if they just got promoted and they want to do that for a while. Or they are happy with what they are doing right now?" I replied that I understood that and I feel like that is a problem everywhere. Everything has to be growing all the time and it's probably not for the better.

[RajT88]

It's a problem for managers too. They may want employees to keep doing exactly what they are doing, but the employees themselves want "growth" in some sense.

So they have to create the illusion of growth, new title, a few inconsequential responsibilities, maybe some small salary bump. You get the idea.