Industrialised Filtering: Mobley v Workday - Wwho gets seen?
Pattern Industrialised Filtering Status Historical Case Mobley v Workday and the corporate cost of Industrialised Filtering One of the recurring themes in Governable is that machine-shaped systems rarely create entirely new governance problems. More often, they expose existing organisational behaviours at unprecedented scale. The Mobley v Workday case is a useful example. The case focused attention on the growing use of automated hiring systems and whether those systems may contribute to discriminatory outcomes. While the legal questions remain important, the broader governance lesson sits elsewhere. The case forces us to ask a simple question: Who gets seen? Large organisations often receive thousands of applications for a single role. Filtering is unavoidable. Without some form of triage, meaningful review becomes impossible. Historically, this filtering was performed by people. Today, it is increasingly performed by systems. This creates a subtle shift. Candidates are not mer...