More on non-canine dog food

The phrase "eating your own dog food" has been around for a long time. It refers to the practice in the software world of using the products that you develop to help ensure that they're ready for the real world. (More about dog food history here, Eating your own dog food in the 1960s .)
Aron Ain , the CEO of Kronos, Inc. was interviewed for an article in yesterday's Boston Globe business section. His company makes a wide range of highly-regarded workforce management software products, stuff that helps you manage various aspect of your HR and business operations.
A popular new product is called Kronos Retail Labor Index. Ain describes it this way:

The Retail Labor Index is meant to measure over time how many people are applying through our [job application] tool at thousands of locations . . . and how many of those they end up hiring. . . .

Sounds great.
In 2009, Kronos had to lay off 250 workers because of the downturn in the U.S. economy. Asked how many of those people were hired back, Ain replied, "I don’t know." He went on to say that people moved around, that there were jobs in different geographical areas, and so on.
If only there was a product that could keep track of who applied for what jobs in what locations....