HR Analytics is a topic that’s rising in popularity among HR professionals. Analytics in HR aims to be the leading platform about this subject. Below you can find all the articles we ever published. Our articles are written by a set of dedicated writers with experience in applying analytics within companies. Check the different kinds kinds of articles below:
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This article lists the nine most-used HR analytics tools. Adopting HR analytics is a big step for many people and organizations. Indeed, I often get asked: “What are the best HR analytics tools to use?” This article will give you the answer to this question. Here’s a list of the nine best HR analytics tools…
This article lists the eleven best HR analytics courses in the world today. Getting started with HR analytics – also called People Analytics – is a big step for a lot of people and organizations. Common questions are: Where should I start? What tools do I need? What are common traps I should avoid? An…
We know that an effective HR strategy can increase company performance. With the rise of HR analytics, companies can better measure whether HR strategies actually pay off. Proving the added value of HR is a very useful first step. However, doing so proves hard to do. In this article, I will focus on the HR…
I attended an HR analytics conference in 2014, and was very impressed by the HR analytics work done in excel by Elouise Leonard-Cross, then of Home Group, in the North-East of England. The Home Group HR team did a great job by keeping things simple. They did the basics of HR right, they ran a…
A Human Resources Information System, or HRIS, is the most used software in HR. In this article, we will give an overview of what an HRIS is, its main functionalities, and everything more you need to know to have a basic understanding of the HRIS. Contents What is an HRIS?HRIS functionalitiesDifferent kinds of HRIS systems…
In a previous article, I have explained and advocated the use utility analysis for estimating the financial return of learning interventions. As highlighted in this previous article, utility analysis refers to a specific tool designed to estimate the institutional gain or loss anticipated to a company from various HR interventions designed to enhance the value…
In the community of our AIHR Academy, we’ve had a few discussions about how to calculate employee turnover and retention. In the people analytics space, employee turnover is arguably the most-discussed metric. However, calculating turnover is much trickier than it seems. In this article, we will propose a best practice to measuring employee turnover. Calculating…
If only we could know things in advance, especially those things that bother us the most today. Machine learning and predictive analytics are often touted as the ultimate solution – and they can be. However, certain misconceptions limit effectiveness of predictive models or even hinder their development to begin with. In this article, I will…
It is time that HR analytics starts to show the value it delivers to the business. This is hard to do as people analytics is still an emerging field. For this article, I have collected 15 of the best HR analytics case studies I’ve come across in the past two years. Each of these case…
As HR professionals and executives are trying to move the workforce analytics agenda forward, we are still facing challenges. Although the urgency for data-driven decision making in HR is increasing, the maturity of workforce analytics is still quite low in most organizations. Why is this? The primary reasons I’ve found working with HR leaders are:…