Don Peck's They Re Watching You At Work

Finding a job remains an uphill task for many individuals as they plow through a jungle of information provided on the web in search of their ideal job. As large corporations aim to stay on track with their productive efficiency and profit maximization goals, these corporations are constantly in search for the right person for their job openings. In “They’re Watching You at Work”, Don Peck shows us that the rise in quantity of workforce metrics and pre-hiring screening data being collected for the use of human resource management has grown significantly in our bid to rid employers of biased judgments. While Peck acknowledges that there are merits in using people analytics to sieve out the crème de la crème (“cream of the crop”) from the current

In Big Data, Schönberger contends that big data can only come up with predictions of gains and reducing risks on the U.S. equity markets, with the “[application of] math to huge quantities of data in order to infer probabilities” (Schönberger 12) and provide an insight to our understanding of certain correlations. Having a reliance on stock-price analytics, with about 6 billion shares changing hands everyday on the U.S. equity markets and more than half are traded by computer algorithms many individuals as they plowwhan half are tradedcksr e slopes of the canyon))nions. I believe everyone is a team player n the based on mathematical models in the stock markets, there would be a greater potential for markets to crash as a lot of noise is present in our data collection that could overestimate or underestimate the economic situation of a given company. We are unable to decipher how the stock markets work with only the use of data as there could be other factors like consumer confidence levels which cannot be clearly measured and are usually in binned terms. Similar to the stock market, humans are complex creatures, that would pose an even greater challenge to fully comprehend. Without acknowledging the limitations of data usage with only the ability to predict and assessing risks of a given event in our society, Peck does not set a good backdrop for people analytics with this analogical example as these limitations weaken his support for its usage in the labor