Now You See Me, Now I’m Gone

As undervalued performers become more visible, they also gain more options to leave their employers.

Boris Groysberg, Derek Haas, and Eric Lin

November 21, 2022

The Analysis

• Employees have new ways to showcase their talents; this creates the opportunity for increased mobility.
• The authors drew lessons from how a change in available information on worker quality affected mobility within the securities analyst labor market.
• Exploiting variation in visible performance data for securities analysts, the authors isolated the effects of performance transparency on mobility activity.

Technology-enabled remote work and changing work norms are making it easier for people to change roles or employers without uprooting themselves. ...