There is potential for Natural Language Processing in People Analytics to provide transnational corporations with a tool to improve interpersonal communication across it multicultural teams as well as “soften the blow” of cultural biases and misunderstandings, uncovering what’s otherwise “lost in translation”.
As office workers return, their world will be different. Tools and metrics used for location-based tracking of workers is likely to be ubiquitous. Employers can track their workers’ every move, so letting them know how they will use the data will be critical to maintaining culture and trust.
How can people analytics help you become a better leader? Using data from multiple sources to create a leadership intelligence dashboard with access to your strengths and areas of improvement to keep you on the right track towards your true leadership north.
At HBS, we are trained to make effective decisions based on incomplete data, and after two years of reading hundreds of cases, a lot of us become really good at advising CEOs about what they should do to solve a […]
We often forget that surveillance technologies are used by many institutions beyond the private sector. Take a look at modern police departments across the United States for instance. In New York City, the NYPD has transformed into a modern police […]
https://hbr.org/2020/07/microsoft-analyzed-data-on-its-newly-remote-workforce?ab=seriesnav-bigidea After a year of Zoom meetings, people are yearning for in-person connection at work. Interactions once considered foreign (like muting yourself after you finished speaking or turning off your camera to subtly suggest that you have left the room) […]
It is no secret that the COVID pandemic has transformed various companies over the last year, forcing the hands of employers to make concessions regarding the location that employees get their work done. Ford Motor Co. is no different! In the last year, significant efforts have been made to ensure that the unpredictable rules around COVID will continue to be met with options.
Given the recent uptick in companies disclosing DEI metrics, how effective is this disclosure to actually moving the needle? How should the disclosure of DE&I metrics fit into overall DE&I strategy?
I have a soft spot for questions about remote work, so when I saw this article about Microsoft analyzing the effect of remote work on its employees, I was hooked: a team saw the past year of virtual as an […]
How much do leaders matter? Coaches, CEOs, political leaders… it differs.
