Since the very early days of industrial engineering, companies have been trying to collect data about people at work. The first pioneer in this market, Fredrick Taylor, measured the activity of iron workers in the steel mills. He found that when people carried exactly 65 pounds of iron, they produced the optimum output of productivity (and didn’t hurt themselves). Since then, we have learned how to capture a myriad of data about people at work.
We now capture data about where applicants and employees went to school, their employment histories, their job performance, their training histories, their career paths, and of course their ages and even their psychological profiles.
