Last week,
Fortune introduced us to a new
HR tech product called Perception. According to
Fortune, Perception creator Kanjoya claims that the program can interpret the “intent and emotions” behind written text and filter out unconscious bias. As an example of Perception’s “powerful functions,” Kanjoya’s chief data scientist describes the software’s ability to recognize that “…when a supervisor repeatedly used the word ‘good’…to describe an employee, that should actually be interpreted as a negative, not positive, signal.” We expect this will come as quite a surprise to some supervisors. Perception can apparently also sort a company’s data by gender and ethnicity, although it’s not clear how either characteristic will be determined. As we have cautioned in
prior posts, employers should adopt new HR tech with care.
Discrimination
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The judge in the defamation case of former CEO Dov Charney against American Apparel described the evidence that would come out if the matter went to trial as the “
mother of all sexual harassment cases.”
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Technology
In other developments:
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Jon Hyman conducted a
survey of how companies treat exempt workers who take intermittent leave under the Family Medical Leave Act.
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