May 21, 2009

Google looking for answers

The current financial situation has seen many changes in the way that people and businesses are run, no longer is there the long term security of a job for life.

For businesses, it has been an exercise in cost cutting and trimming down. However, as a business attempts to save cash and create a model for the future employees also take stock, this can have some serious effects on the company’s long term future.

Enter Google; they are working on an algorithm that can determine which employees are most likely to consider leaving their job. This works on the principle of searching employee data such as reviews, promotions and pay.

Google claim that they are able to identify who in their workforce of over twenty thousand is likely to be thinking of leaving.

Source [WSJ]