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Google sticks to the knitting in predicting leavers

Doing what it does best, Google has created an algorithm to predict those staff most likely to leave their business in favour of rival employers.

The silicon valley giant revealed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that recent high profile leavers had prompted the development of technology to predict which of it’s 20,000 employees were at risk of leaving for the excitement of younger technology businesses such as Facebook and Twitter.