Workforce Analytics: Helpful or Creepy??

Cat owners need not apply!

I promise it's unfortunately real and relevant. We even spent a couple minutes talking about how analytics might enable discrimination on factors that seem to have no bearing on performance like whether you love cats vs dogs. This kind of data is part of the trend towards creepy analytics.

I spoke with Dr. Salvatore Falletta who just wrote a book entitled 'Creepy Analytics'. He helped me draw the line between AI and analytics which are related but not exactly the same thing. Whether analytics or AI, HR needs to be monitoring this or legislation will eventually do it for us.

Some unfortunately real questions we discussed:

👂Should your employer be able to listen in on conversations?

🚽Should your boss know if your are in the bathroom?

💸If you dump company stock, should your boss know?

🤔Should your employer be able to scrape sentiment from your emails?

🙀Is your love of cats (vs dogs) relevant and, even if it is, should a prospective employer make decisions on this?

We need transparent data collection and analytics and white box AI. These were just a few of the insights in this somewhat dystopian but also funny episode.

Sal’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvatore-falletta/ Sal’s Book: Creepy Analytics: Avoid Crossing the Line and Establish Ethical HR Analytics for Smarter Workforce Decisions Find Andrea https://www.thehrhub.ca/