It’s really hard to get your arms around the implications of global ubiquitous DNA testing. It’s coming fast. And it won’t stay private for long. If I can find my relatives using genetic information, then the reverse is true. It won’t take long until employers will be able to make a pretty good guess. Read our feature post Genetic Testing.
As genetic information becomes clearer and more widely available, it’s going to become an issue in employment law. While there are regulations in place (see below), the data is voluminous, unwieldy and likely to be everywhere.
This stuff isn’t going to be private for very long. If I can find my relatives using genetic information, then the reverse is true. It won’t take long until employers will be able to make a pretty good guess.
It’s kind of like the fuss about driverless cars. They won’t do you a damn bit of good if you don’t know where you’re going. They’re sort of useless without that info.
If you want to do a survey that has meaningful results, you have to acquire a random sample of the universe you want to understand. The whole idea is that by randomly picking the survey subjects, you will get a result that is a meaningful representation of the whole.
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Maren Hogan joins The HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board this week with her post Recruiting Sizzle: “…some of the fundamental concepts of work, and how people view it, are changing (for the better IMHO) and that is having a profound effect on how people work, why they work, and therefore, how you can recruit them.” Enjoy this and new posts from Heather Bussing and John Sumser on Social Media, the Health Care Shuffle and more.
This week, it’s tracking and targeting. The social in social media means hunting and acquiring to some. It means reasonable paranoia to others.
The employers who recognize this short term windfall will end up paying for their employees healthcare in the long haul. Workers who get saddled with new bills seem to always want raises.
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