Emojis predict dropouts of remote workers: An empirical study of emoji usage on GitHub. (arXiv:2102.05737v2 [cs.LG] UPDATED)

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 …

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