Machine learning is rapidly infiltrating today's workplace, in businesses of all shapes, sizes and industries -- and it's here to stay. In fact, so far in 2016 over 200 AI-focused companies have raised nearly $1.5 billion in funding, and equity deals to startups in AI increased 6x from roughly 70 in 2011 to almost 400 in 2015. Large companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have already begun to build their machine learning capabilities to handle large data sets and recognize patterns. But an area that machine learning hasn't yet fully infiltrated -- and one that it has the ability to transform -- is people management. In fact, 55 percent of organizations still report being weak at using HR data to predict workforce performance and improvement.