Big Data Analysis of Employee Turnover in Global Media Companies, Google, Facebook and Others

Abstract

An analysis of a unique data set of over 970,000 Curriculum Vitas (CVs), revealed a mild inverse relation between job satisfaction and the average employment period. We found that while higher compensation packages often lead to higher job satisfaction, this does not translate into longer employment period. Moreover, our findings indicate an opposite and surprising pattern, in which as salary and satisfaction levels increase, employment period per job decreases. This counter-intuitive effect was found to be strongest in global high technology companies, such as Google and Facebook.