Work State Resolution

Employee Lifecycle

We defined employee lifecycle as a series of stages that a worker advances through in an organization from the starting recruitment until their resignation, termination or retirement. The figure below illustrates the possible rotation in the lifecycle that we have extracted from analyzing the AMC-HR data set and applying the standardized terms for the work state. More details on the data analysis will be provided in the next sub-section.

The description for each work state is given as follows:

1. Work. It is described as active work status.
2. LOA. It is short for “Leave of Absence”, which is described as a period of time that one must be away from one's primary job while maintaining the status of an employee.
3. FMLA. It is short for “Family and Medical Leave Act”, which is described as unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons, such as, pregnancy, personal or family illness, or military leave.
4. STD. It is short for “Short Term Disability”, which is described as to leave from work due to a temporary disability, such as pregnancy, accidental injuries, and illness.
5. LTD. It is short for “Long Term Disability”, which is described as to leave from work due to an extended illness or after a disabling accident.
6. Suspend. It is described as a period of time that one is asked to not engage any work at all due to medical or health reasons or as part of disciplinary action.
7. Terminate. It is described as a departure from a job or the end of an employee's duration with the employer.
8. Retire. It is described as a withdrawal from one's position or occupation, usually after reaching a certain age.

Deciding a Work State

Four variables from the combined data set are used to create the decision tree for deciding the work state and they are: empstats, action, reasoncd, and Elig. The table below renders the tree in a tabular format where the path sequence (from the root to the bottom) is depicted by the first four columns from left to right, and the expected output is revealed in the last column. The '✕' character indicates a skip in the conditions, so for example, the first row states a rule that says if empstats equal to "2" then the work_state's value will be "STD", skipping the need for checking the action, reasoncd and Elig variables.

Input Variables				Output
empstats	action	reasoncd	Elig	work_state
2	✕	✕	✕	STD
3	✕	✕	✕	LTD
4, 5, 8, 9, D, T	✕	✕	0	Terminate
	✕	✕	1	Retire
6	✕	✕	✕	LOA
L, P	Leave of Absence, LEAVE OF ABSENCE, Paid Leave of Absence	FMLA, Military, MILIT	✕	FMLA
	Short Term Disability, SHORT TERM DISABILITY	✕	✕	STD
	Long Term Disability, LONG TERM DISABILITY	✕	✕	LTD
	✕	✕	✕	LOA
7, Q, R	✕	✕	✕	Retire
A	✕	✕	✕	Work
S	✕	✕	✕	Suspend
I	New Status	✕	✕	Work
N	Position Name, Transferred, Lateral	✕	✕	Work
O	Leave - Personal/Paid, Leave - Workers Comp, Leave - Educational, Leave - Union	✕	✕	LOA
	New Position, In Range Incr, Leave Layoff, Business Unit, Position Eval, Position Change, Performance, New Status, New Position, Job Category, Audit Review, Hrly Pos Reeval, Audit Change??, Contract Change, Audit Change Only, Salary Adj, BU Name, Special Adjust	✕	✕	Work
	Leave - Military, Leave - Family (FMLA)	✕	✕	FMLA
	Layoff - Separation	✕	✕	Suspend
	Layoff - Hourly: Benefits Expi, Layoff - Temporary/Regular, Layoff - Permanent (Obsolete 1, Layoff - Dept Shutdown, Layoff - Disciplinary, Layoff - Plant Shutdown	✕	✕	Terminate
	Leave - Disability	✕	✕	STD
	Leave - Long Term Disability	✕	✕	LTD
0, J, X	✕	✕	✕	Unknown
NULL	Leave of Absence Education, Paid Leave, Leave of Absence Unpaid, Leave of Absence Union, Leave of Absence Worker's Compensation, Leave of Absence Union Business Agent	✕	✕	LOA
	Hire, Active Assignment, Active Probation	✕	✕	Work
	Leave of Absence FMLA, Leave of Absence Military, Paid Leave Military	✕	✕	FMLA
	Layoff Legacy, Suspended Disciplinary, Layoff Separation	✕	✕	Suspend
	Terminated, Layoff Plant Shut Down Union Only Use SBE, Layoff Union Use Only SBE, Layoff Special ISP, Layoff SBE, Layoff Plant Shut Down no SBE, Layoff Plant Shut Down SBE, Layoff Department Shut Down, Layoff Benefit Expired, Layoff No SBE	✕	1	Retire
		✕	0	Terminate
	Leave of Absence STD	✕	✕	STD
	Leave of Absence LTD, Leave of Absence Legacy	✕	✕	LTD