These candidates ended up working customer-service and sales jobs for companies in industries such as telecommunications, retail, and hospitality.Ĭornerstone’s researchers found that people who took the test on a non-default browser, such as Firefox or Chrome, ended up staying at their jobs about 15 percent longer than those who stuck with Safari or Internet Explorer. Cornerstone OnDemand, a company that sells software that helps employers recruit and retain workers, analyzed data on about 50,000 people who took its 45-minute online job assessment (which is like a thorough personality test) and then were successfully hired at a firm using its software. But in the end, they all ended up doing more or less the same thing, just with marginally different visual styles and at marginally different speeds.īut in the world of Big Data, everything means something. Safari was for Apple purists, Chrome for the fleet of foot, Firefox for the universally compatible, and Internet Explorer for the masochistic. There was a time when the browser you used was nothing more than a matter of taste or subtle self-expression.
