Graham Dodge
In the midst of cold and flu season, Sickweather has a new option to provide its illness-tracking technology for company managers looking for info that could indicate employees will be calling out.
The startup uses social media and other data to provide forecasts about illnesses that are going around in specific areas. Now it’s applying the tools to help human resources departments as they seek to get ahead of sick days.
“We created a whole new model that takes into account the company’s historic unplanned absences with an understanding of how many of those could be explained by illness, and then projects unplanned absences based on current scheduled absences and known illness activity for their area,” said CEO Graham Dodge.
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