Hearing about a rival’s pay rise the week it happens

Yuki is the HR manager at one of Kyoto’s largest hotel groups. She has six hundred staff across nine hotels. Housekeepers leave for a few hundred yen more an hour, and she finds out at the exit interview. Rival hotels change their pay quietly, on their own careers pages. By the time HR reviews pay each spring, twenty people have gone. With xMap Flows, Yuki built Prism. Every Monday at eight, Prism reads every hotel job posted in Kyoto, watches eight rivals’ careers pages for new roles, compares the pay offered with her own, keeps the roles where rivals pay more, and tells the hotel managers. This Monday, Prism finds three rivals raising housekeeping pay near Kyoto Station, by up to two hundred yen an hour. Yuki matches it at two hotels the same week. This season only four housekeepers leave, down from twenty. Yuki used to learn about pay at exit interviews. Now she learns it on Monday.

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