Microsoft Veterans ' new Project Textio: eliminating HR business through text analysis

Compared to ancient women, modern women have won no small rights, but in many ways still subject to intentional or unintentional discrimination and prejudice. For example, when employees perform their job performance evaluations, female employees are more likely to receive relatively negative reviews because of their gender.

Because of this, two of Microsoft's former employees Jensen Harris and Kieran Snyder partner to do a company called Textio, through the text analysis, find hidden in the field of HR bias and discrimination, so that internal talent growth and promotion more smoothly.

Earlier, Snyder had written a more detailed article about the gender bias in the company's internal performance evaluations. Small-scale surveys have shown that women are more likely to receive negative feedback, and even if they get constructive advice, they will be asked to "step back", regardless of whether they are male or female bosses. ）。 Snyder sent this article, many companies come to her to find solutions, contributing to the birth of Textio.

Textio can be seen as an example of using technology to overcome the inherent weaknesses of human beings. People are very smart, many things can only be done by people, but people also have many defects, using machines to help correct, can make up for some people do not see the mistakes.