Universal Containers has a Performance Feedback custom object (Private organization- wide default) used by customers...

The durable design is to anchor the feedback record to the driver for hierarchy purposes, remove the driver ' s object-level Read permission, and allow managers above the driver to inherit record access through the role hierarchy. Ownership by the driver means that when the driver moves to a different manager or branch in the hierarchy, the access path can follow the updated hierarchy instead of remaining tied to a specific former manager. Removing Read permission prevents the driver from opening the Performance Feedback object even though the driver is used as the ownership anchor. Managers are stated to have Read permission, so hierarchy-derived record access can be effective for them. Transferring ownership to the current manager would make the design brittle when management changes, and an additional ownership-based sharing rule is unnecessary when the hierarchy already expresses the upward-access relationship. Study Guide reference: Access to Records - role hierarchy, record ownership, custom-object hierarchy access, object permissions, Private OWD, and management realignment.