Predictive Attributes

Voluntary-termination and performance predictions are based on specific attributes from a worker's personal, employment, absence, compensation, and talent management information, most of which are held at the assignment level.

This topic identifies the relevant attributes by their factor names, as they appear in predictive analytics, and explains how each attribute value is calculated or derived.

Person Attributes

Person attributes are described in the following table.

Factor Name	Description
Worker is an employee	Worker has a current employee work relationship
Home city	City from the worker's current home address
Home country	Country from the worker's current home address
Time until work permit or visa expiration	Number of weeks until the worker's next visa or work-permit expiration
Has a second passport	Worker has a second passport
Worker is a rehire	Worker was previously employed by the enterprise
Tobacco user	Worker uses tobacco
Time until contract expiration	Number of months until expiration of the worker's contract
Willing to relocate domestically	Worker is willing to move to a different location in the same country
Willing to relocate internationally	Worker is willing to move to a different country

Employment Attributes

Employment attributes are described in the following table.

Factor Name	Description
Current legal employer	Legal employer from the assignment
Current enterprise	Current enterprise
Worker category	Worker category from the assignment
Length of service	Worker's enterprise service in years
Time since last probation ended	Number of months since completion of the worker's latest probation period
Current assignment status	Status of the assignment
Legislation	Legislation of the legal employer
Current or most recent manager	Line manager of the assignment
Time with current manager	Number of months the worker has been reporting to the current manager
Average time with each manager	Average number of months the worker has reported to each manager in all employee assignments in the enterprise
Number of manager changes in the last 5 years	Number of manager changes in all of the worker's employee assignments in the last 5 years
Normal start time	Work start time from the assignment
Normal end time	Work end time from the assignment
Normal working hours	Expected number of hours worked each day
FTE	Sum of the FTE values from the worker's current employee assignments
Current grade	Grade from the assignment
Time in current grade	Number of months between the last grade change or the start of the assignment and the current date
Average time in each grade	Average number of months between grade changes for all of the worker's past and current employee assignments in the enterprise
Number of different grades	Number of different grades for this worker in all past and current employee assignments in the enterprise
Number of grade changes in the last 2 years	Number of different grades for this worker in all employee assignments in the last 2 years
Current department	Department from the assignment
Time in current department	Number of months between the last department change or the start of the assignment and the current date
Number of different departments	Number of different departments for this worker in all past and current employee assignments in the enterprise
Average time in each department	Average number of months between department changes for all of the worker's past and current employee assignments in the enterprise
Current job	Job from the assignment
Time in current job	Number of months between the last job change or the start of the assignment and the current date
Average time in each job	Average number of months between job changes for all of the worker's past and current employee assignments in the enterprise
Current position	Position from the assignment
Time in current position	Number of months between the last position change or the start of the assignment and the current date
Average time in each position	Average number of months between position changes for all of the worker's past and current employee assignments in the enterprise
Current location	Location from the assignment

Absence Attributes

Absence attributes are described in the following table.

Factor Name	Description
Amount of leave taken in the previous year	Number of days' leave taken in the previous year
Total enterprise leave	Number of days' leave taken since the start of the worker's enterprise service
Time since last leave	Number of months between the latest leave and the current date
Amount of sickness in the current year	Number of sickness days taken in the current year
Amount of sickness in the previous year	Number of sickness days taken in the previous year
Increase in sickness over previous year	Percentage change in the number of sickness days for the year to date compared with the previous year
Time since last sickness	Number of months between the latest sickness day and the current date
Number of sickness absences in the previous year	Number of distinct periods of sickness in the previous year
Increase in sickness absences over previous year	Percentage change in the number of sickness absences for the year to date compared with the previous year

Compensation Attributes

Compensation attributes are described in the following table.

Factor Name	Description
Latest salary change	Latest salary change as a percentage of the annualized salary before the change
Reason for latest salary change	Reason for the latest salary change
Time since latest salary change	Number of months between the latest salary change or the hire date and the current date
Average salary change	Average of all salary-change percentages since the hire date
Time until next salary review	Number of months between the current date and the date of the next salary review
Time since last received options	Number of months since stock options were last granted
Ratio of vested to unvested options	Vested stock options expressed as a percentage of the worker's total stock options

Talent Management Attributes

Talent management attributes are described in the following table.

Factor Name	Description
Current performance self rating	Worker's current self-assessment for the assignment
Current manager performance rating	Manager's current overall performance rating for the worker's assignment
Difference between manager rating and self rating	Difference between the manager's overall rating of the worker and the worker's self-assessment
Current appraising manager	Name of the manager performing the evaluation of the worker
Previous manager performance rating	Manager's previous overall performance rating for the assignment
Current performance rating	Current overall performance rating for the assignment
Change in current performance	Current overall performance rating for the assignment expressed as a percentage of the rating for the previous year