Emojis predict dropouts of remote workers: An empirical study of emoji usage on GitHub.

ABSTRACT: Emotions at work have long been identified as critical signals of work motivations, status, and attitudes, and as predictors of various work-related outcomes. When more and more employees work remotely, these emotional signals of workers become harder to observe through daily, face-to-face communications. The use of online platforms to communicate and collaborate at work provides an alternative channel to monitor the emotions of workers. This paper studies how emojis, as non-verbal cues in online communications, can be used for such purposes and how the emotional signals in emoji usage can be used to predict future behavior of workers. In particular, we present how the developers on GitHub use emojis in their work-related activities. We show that developers have diverse patterns of emoji u

SUBMITTER: Lu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8791473 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature