China tech firm develops controversial IT system that can predict whether an employee is about to resign
A Shenzhen-listed company has stirred controversy by developing a system that can predict whether an employee is about to resign by spying on activities, such as browsing job recruitment pages and sending job application emails.
The system, built by Sangfor Technologies, gained public attention after a user on Maimai.cn, a professional networking app, said he was fired after his company found out using the monitoring system that he had been applying for other jobs.
The system can spy on an employee’s online activities in the office to check whether an employee has checked job websites, sent applications and then rank employees by the level of perceived resignation risk.
