Manager w/ paper vs manager w/ program (Score 1)

A lot of people are jumping really quickly against this because "I don't want to be just a number, I'm a person and you have to account for my feelings". The problem is there's more factors than just how an employee will feel when moving then to another project, and it's difficult to go through hundreds of potential teams and combinations manually while taking into considering how these teams will interact and how suited people are to the job at hand. By getting a program to spit out possibly combinations, it takes out a lot of the gruntwork, letting more probable combinations been generated and evaluated by whoever's working on the new team. If anything, I'd say people's feelings might be accounted for better than less. There will be visible alternatives to any undesirable combinations, and honestly, do you think that a manager shuffling paper is likely to come up with better teams on average than a manager with a program which spits out combinations of people with the right range of knowledge and experience? It's just a tool after all, like performance reviews and resumes. You might as well say you refuse to use those because they aren't accurate reflections of who you are. (That may be true, but consider the alternatives.)

If being a number in some program means the real me will be happier and get opportunities I'm suited for, then I'd say sure, why not?

And if this whole thing doesn't actually work... Well that's why they're doing this and seeing if it does. No point in shooting it down when it's still very much research.