Differentiating Higher and Lower Job Performers in the Workplace Using Mobile Sensing Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Assessing performance in the workplace typically relies on subjective evaluations, such as, peer ratings, supervisor ratings and self assessments, which are manual, burdensome and potentially biased. We use objective mobile sensing data from phones, wearables and beacons to study workplace performance and offer new insights into behavioral patterns that distinguish higher and lower performers when considering roles in companies (i.e., supervisors and non-supervisors) and different types of companies (i.e., high tech and consultancy). We present initial results from an ongoing year-long study of N=554 information workers collected over a period ranging from 2-8.5 months. We train a gradient boosting classifier that can classify workers as higher or lower performers with AUROC of 0.83. Our work opens the way to new forms of passive objective assessment and feedback to workers to potentially provide week by week or quarter by quarter guidance in the workplace.

publication date

  • June 21, 2019

has restriction

  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • January 30, 2020 11:14 AM

Full Author List

  • Mirjafari S; Masaba K; Grover T; Wang W; Audia P; Campbell AT; Chawla NV; Swain VD; Choudhury MD; Dey AK

author count

  • 29

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Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 2474-9567

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1

end page

  • 24

volume

  • 3

issue

  • 2