At IBM, when performance review time rolls around, employees get judged not only on their past
accomplishments (and failures) but also on how they might perform in the future. How can IBM predict
the future? In a word: Watson.
Using artificial intelligence, Watson Analytics looks at an employee’s experiences and projects to infer
the potential skills and qualities each person might have to serve IBM in the future. Watson also scours
IBM’s internal training system to see if an employee has gained new skills. Managers then take
Watson’s assessment rating into account as they make bonus, pay and promotion decisions.
If this will somehow lead to virtual AI robot managers, then I'm all for it! Clean-out the middle management bloat once and for all.
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IBM, for one, says it can’t find enough candidates with the right skills to fill its jobs, especially for its
technology roles.
Perhaps they shouldn't have RA'd all those highly skilled, loyal folks over the past ~25 years.