Apparently companies are starting to apply "big data" techniques to decide which applicants to hire. One of the criteria is if you have installed a non-default browser on your system. Apparently the data suggest, "...that those applicants who have bothered to install new web browsers on their computers (such as Mozilla's Firefox or Google's Chrome) perform better and stay in their posts for 15% longer, on average, than those who use the default pre-installed browser that came with their machine."
Another interesting quote, "...for customer-support calls, people with a criminal background actually perform a bit better."
The Econimist's brief article mentions other criteria too.
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