Employers want to know who has one foot out the door.<\/p>\n
As turnover becomes a bigger worry\u201d\u201dand expense\u201d\u201din a tightening labor market, companies including Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,Credit Suisse Group AG and Box Inc. are analyzing a vast array of data points to determine who is likely to leave a post.<\/p>\n
The idea, say people who run analytics teams, is to give managers early warning so they can take action before employees jump ship.<\/p>\n
Corporate data crunchers play with dozens of factors, which may include job tenure, geography, performance reviews, employee surveys, communication patterns and even personality tests to identify flight risks, a term human-resources departments sometimes use for people likely to leave.<\/p>\n
The data often reveal a complex picture of what motivates workers to stay\u201d\u201dand what causes them to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n