Predicting which employees most likely to quit: Google’s new challenge!
To tackle concerns about a recent talent exodus, Google has just developed an algorithm that can predict which of its employees are most likely to quit. According to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, the new tool is based on a compilation of data including salary and promotion history, and performance reviews of the company’s 20,000 employees. The mathematical formula obtained, currently in the testing phase, detects employees who feel underused. Most people who quit do so because they feel they can’t make the same impact as the company matures, said current and former Googlers. Recently, many talents decamped to other Web giants like Facebook and Twitter.