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Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-recycle-it dept.

HughPickens.com writes Quentin Hardy reports at the NYT that a leading maker of cloud-based software for running corporate human resources and financial operations has announced new products that provide the kind of data analysis that Netflix uses to recommend movies, LinkedIn has to suggest people you might know, or Facebook needs to put a likely ad in front of you. One version of the software, called Insight Applications, predicts which high-performing employees are likely to leave a company in the next year; it then offers possible actions (more money, new job) that might make them stay. In another instance, expense reporting software can predict which employee populations are most likely to exceed their budgets. "We've applied machine learning to affect consumer tastes," says Mohammad Sabah, director of data science at Workday. "Putting it to career choices, to pay and employment, have a huge upside if we do it right." Already, Sabah says, "we're surprised how accurately we can predict someone will leave a job." The goal is to predict future business outcomes to take advantage of opportunities and cut risk levels. One future product may be the ability to predict who will and won't make their sales quotas, and suggest who should be hired to improve the outcome. "Making an employee happy, improving the efficiency of a company these are hard problems that affect corporations."

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  1. It's Good Being The Boss by MRe_nl · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never quit, I just go bankrupt ; ).

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    "Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
  2. Algorithm by Alicat1194 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I take it the algorithm looks something like this:

    If EMPLOYEE WEBSURFING equals EMPLOYMENT WEBSITE then output "Employee is thinking of leaving" else output "All good, nothing to see here"?

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    You can learn a lot about a person if you just take the time to inject them with sodium pentathol
  3. The actual algorithm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    if (subjective.IsActiveOnLinkedInLastThirtyDays()){ThinkingOfLeaving = true};

  4. That time I ate 3 burritos... by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would you be opposed to big data finding out when you take a dump in the morning, as long as its voluntary?

    If you're taking a dump in the morning and it's not voluntary, you should see a doctor.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  5. Re:I've worked at a Fortune 50 for the last 2 year by sasquatch989 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, the program will probably just generate another daily email blast to management/HR that will get lost or ignored