The Calibration

Story day 1,130

Marianne could see Elliot's departure on the left of the people director's screen and the succession grid on the right. The departure carried the code career development. Elliot had selected it from eight reasons because the new job was, in fact, a development in his career. His free-text sentence said he was moving to own a service through production. The dashboard had retained the code and discarded the sentence.

“Have the categories changed since I last asked?” Marianne said.

“We've held them stable for comparison.”…