Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You

An anonymous reader writes "Former Netflix data scientist Mohammad Sabah has used the basis of the video-streaming company's movie-recommendation engine to create a new system to predict when valuable employees are likely to leave your company for pastures new. The new application 'Workday Talent Insights' uses the basis of the engine to correlate diverse factors such as interval between promotions and current length of tenure with equivalent job opportunities at employment websites, in order to gauge 'corporate restlessness', and provide options for employers who identify potential leavers."

Comments

Easy

[halivar]

Has the employee been watching Office Space on repeat? He's about to leave.

Re: Managers need an algorithm for that?

[jrumney]

Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. I don't normally wear jeans to work though.

In some workplaces that could be considered inappropriate, in others it may depend on your style of underwear.

Re:Managers need an algorithm for that?

[Thanshin]

Knowing my past bosses, they need less succinct clues:

- Did they set up the job search page as browser's default?
- Did they ask you to check their CV?
- Did they tell you "That's it! I'm leaving this fucking hell hole!"
- Did they stop coming every morning?

And, the one good clue:
- When you called them on their personal phone to ask if they were "ill, or something", Did they answer "I LEFT THE COMPANY TWO WEEKS AGO, YOU FUCKING RETARD!"?

If the answer to all of the above is yes. Please, for the love of God, stop sending SMSs to their personal phone. They will never come back and they don't care you get fired if you don't make it to the shipping date.

Re:Opportunity plus

[Anonymous Coward]

Like most of the world, Google's Match Me service doesn't even use Google+.

Re: Managers need an algorithm for that?

[Austerity Empowers]

I'd prefer the suckers took off my underwear first.