Just realized my hiring algorithm was quietly filtering out anyone who worked a night shift | Algorithmic Fairness Debate

Caleb Carter · 2026-09-24T03:55:03.387391+00:00

I was reviewing rejections at my staffing gig in Dayton last Tuesday and noticed a pattern: every single auto-rejected applicant had a gap or a late timestamp in their work history. Turns out the model was treating shift work as a sign of instability, which is wild because half my best placements came from people who stocked shelves at 3am. Anyone else catch a proxy like this hiding inside their scoring logic?

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