When news broke about the inner workings of Amazon in Sunday’s New York Times article, I was positively riveted. Reading about how heavily the company is said to rely on data to evaluate employees got me thinking about the role of data in employee-related matters. Should those types of decisions be entirely data-centric, as seems to be the case at Amazon? Or should business leaders rely more on nuance and instinct when they’re making decisions about their people?
When news broke about the inner workings of Amazon in Sunday’s New York Times article, I was positively riveted. Reading about how heavily the company is said to rely on data to evaluate employees got me thinking about the role of data in employee-related matters. Should those types of decisions be entirely data-centric, as seems to be the case at Amazon? Or should business leaders rely more on nuance and instinct when they’re making decisions about their people?
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