Design Employee-to-Employee Distance

Design a proximity/relevance service for employees in an enterprise. Given a viewer, two employees, and a product context, return a score or relative closeness; given a viewer and a single employee, return the most relevant coworkers. Products include people search, networking suggestions, collaboration discovery, org analytics, and onboarding support. The service must not reduce closeness to a single opaque metric. Instead, split it into understandable factors:…