Firing people based on algorithms or arbitrary statistics doesn’t protect minorities. It protects the people who know how to game the system. Those who underst

Firing people based on algorithms or arbitrary statistics doesn’t protect minorities. It protects the people who know how to game the system. Those who understand how the metrics are calculated actually love these systems because they can use that insider information to make themselves look disproportionately good by going through the right motions. If they know they’re being ranked by the number of Jira tickets being closed, they might create 5 tickets for every piece of a task instead of 1 ticket with a checklist. Or if they’re being measured on lines of code committed, they’re going to be doing a lot of unnecessary refactoring and rewriting to keep those numbers up. Indeed, apparently the developers of this big data employee ranking system are internally opposed to letting employees see their own scores. From the article: > The company also planned to implement the so-called “digital mirror,” so every employee could learn what AI thinks of their work and engagement. However, the development team wasn’t enthusiastic about this idea, so its rollout is pending. Of course the development team wouldn’t want other people to be able to see their AI ranking score or be given a chance to learn how to change it. That privilege is reserved for the developers of the AI ranking system, who no doubt score very well on the system. It’s also bizarre that the CEO would publicly admit that his planned feature to let employees know their score was being held up because some employees didn’t want to release it. Why air internal drama like this? Why blame the employees? This CEO sounds like he’s trying to wash his hands of every CEO responsibility at every chance he gets.