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Article: HOW MICROSOFT MEASURES EMPLOYEES.(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Soft-Letter
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- July 31, 1999
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Microsoft is a company in love with competitive metrics, so it's no surprise that Microsoft's 31,396 workers are relentlessly measured, tracked, and analyzed. Bob Herbold, the company's chief operating officer, recently gave financial analysts a peek at how Microsoft measures the performance of its employees--and how it tracks its own performance as an employer:
* New-hire acceptance rate: To keep growing, says Herbold, Microsoft has to recruit 6-7,000 new employees a year. "One of the things we watch very carefully is our acceptance rate, because it is a good indicator of how attractive this company is to work for." This year, Microsoft nabbed 72% of the ...