People Analytics
People analytics relies on data-driven business decisions regarding your workforce and customers. Rather than depending on intuition, business leaders can make strategic decisions based on insights and evidence.
The benefits of people analytics
With people analytics, HR leaders can predict trends in employment. For example, businesses can use people analytics to match the right talent with the job or measure employee productivity.
- Higher work efficiency: Businesses seek efficiency that can elevate productivity. People analytics facilitates this by enhancing communication and collaboration among departments and employees.
- Better employee engagement: Employees are the foundation without which your business cannot function. It is important to gauge and improve their experience at the workplace. With people analytics, HR leaders can analyse employee engagement and enhance their experience.
- Better decision-making: Businesses can make data-driven decisions for hiring and nurturing and, if necessary, dismissing employees based on their poor performance.
- Deeper behavioural understanding: Employee behaviour is subjective, and we cannot measure it based on intuition. People analytics algorithms provide a structured approach to understanding your workforce better.
- Improved talent acquisition: Companies often waste a lot of capital on hiring inefficient or unworthy employees. With people analytics, they can map employees' skills to the requirements based on specific parameters to find the best fit.
- Easier identification of skill gaps: Businesses invest in learning and development (L&D) to constantly upskill their employees. But if businesses cannot understand their employees' career aspirations and interest areas, L&D may not be effective. This is where people analytics enhances L&D to make it valuable for filling the skill gaps.
- Higher employee retention: People analytics is pivotal for evaluating employee satisfaction and taking necessary actions to decrease attrition. Businesses can pinpoint employees that are most likely to leave and take steps to retain them.
Implementing a successful people analytics system
HR leaders can successfully implement people analytics with these steps:
- HR outsourcing: By digitising your HR processes using technology, businesses not only reap all the benefits mentioned above but also remain competitive in the market. You can also choose to partially outsource HR processes.
- Buy-in from the employees and management: Implementing technology and process transformation requires buy-in from the senior management and the employees. It is necessary to discuss with your HRO service provider and get the stakeholders to concur for long-term success.
- Implementation and continuous improvement: Implementing and running people analytics is a process that improves with time. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Rather, your HRO service provider will design a unique solution suited for your business.
