Data Science in the Workplace

Everyone was talking about the great resignation. Elpida Ormanidou wanted to talk about retention instead. Drawing on research with more than 100,000 people, she found that people come to work for one of three reasons: a job, a career or excellence in their profession. Trouble starts when employer and employee read the same role differently, like a barista who sees a career where the company sees a wage. After the pandemic, she said, many people shifted toward just a job.