A novel deep learning model based on convolutional neural networks for employee churn prediction
Problem
Companies suffer performance losses when valuable employees quit, so they need systems that predict employee churn in advance.
Why it matters
Losing valuable employees significantly affects company performance, making early prediction critical for retention.
What the AI did
Applied a CNN to numerical retail employee data, then proposed a hybrid extended convolutional decision tree (ECDT) and a grid-search-optimized variant (ECDT-GRID) to improve classification accuracy.
Results
ECDT-GRID outperformed the CNN and ECDT models; abstract truncated before further benchmark details.
Impact
Evidence only supports a churn-prediction model outperforming its own baselines on one retail dataset.
Record
| Venue | Journal of Forecasting |
|---|---|
| Published | 2021 |
| Work type | article |
| Authors | Ebru Pekel Özmen, Tuncay Özcan |
| Citations | 52 (OpenAlex, at import time) |
| References | 41 |
| Model or method | CNN, ECDT, ECDT-GRID |
| Organization | not stated in source |
| Primary source | https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2827 |
| Open access | closed |
| Keywords | employee churn, deep learning, CNN, decision tree, grid search, retail |
Importance rating
real but narrower advance
Employee churn affects company performance per abstract, but evidence is one retail dataset with no scale or deployment; real but narrow advance.
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