May 21, 2009 by Jay Smith
Google rightly rates its self as a pretty good place to work, very competitive pay, free lunches and creative freedom when choosing projects has meant that the company has had no worries at all attracting the very cream of the tech sector. For this reason the company grandees don’t much like it when people decide to leave the company. However, their reaction to losing a few (too many in Google’s book) employees to fashionable sites like Twitter recently might be something of an overreaction as well as a little creepy.
What they’ve done is create an algorithm that they think can detect people looking to quit before even the employees themselves know it. The algorithm is still in its testing phase but the Google HR department is said to be confident that it will be able to detect disengaged personnel before they even think about jumping ship.
Knowing Google, the focus will be on retaining staff rather than identifying people to fire though it’s still not a system I’d be happy with my boss introducing. We’ll see what, if any reaction comes from the Google faithful.
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